Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Burial: 30 October 1670.
Place of Burial: Frodsham, Cheshire.
The burial is recorded in the parish register.
Relationships
Father: Raphe Bushell.
Mother: Elizabeth Cally.
See the Commentary section.
Spouse: Alice Hough. Married 24 August 1632 in Frodsham, Cheshire.
The marriage is recorded in the bishop’s transcripts of the parish register.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Elizabeth Bushell (baptized 22 September 1633 in Frodsham, Cheshire) married Thomas Mosse.
Thomas Bushell (baptized 7 April 1636 in Frodsham) married Jane.
Raph Bushell (baptized 23 September 1638 in Frodsham - buried 26 February 1675/6 in Frodsham) married Ellen Flidcroft 24 April 1672 in Warrington, Lancashire.
Mary Bushell (baptized 26 September 1641 in Frodsham - buried 24 January 1717/18 in Childwall, Lancashire) married William Hinton 3 August 1665 in St Oswald, Chester.
Edward Bushell (buried 19 March 1673/4 in Frodsham).
Evidence
Bishop’s transcripts of the Frodsham parish register:
[Marriages, August 1632]:
Randle Bushell and Alice Hough 24
[Baptisms, September 1633]:
Elizabeth Bushell fil Rand 22
[Baptisms, April 1636]:
Thomas Bushell fil Rand 7
[Baptisms, September 1638]:
Raph Bushell fil Ranl 23
[Baptisms, September 1641]:
Marie Bushell fil Ran: 26
Frodsham parish register:
[Burials, 1670, October]:
Randle Bushell of Frodsham 30
Randle’s will:
In the name of God Amen the seauen and twentith day of October in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand sixe hundred and seauentie I Randle Bushell of Frodsham in the county of Chester husbandman being visited under my good God his correcting hand by sicknes but being of good memory & p[er]fect understanding (praised be my good God therefore) doe constitute ordaine & make this my last will & Testament in manner & forme following vizt first I commend my spirit to God that gave it me, and my body (after my dissolution) to Christian buriall in Frodsham parish Church hoping for saluation of my whole man Soule & body through the merits and satisfaction of Jesus Christ my Lord and only Saviour in whome I steadfastly believe. Item my will is that my debts be payd and my funerall expences made & discharged by my executors herafter herin named out of the whole of my goods. Item I give and bequeath unto my sonne Raph Bushell one nagg and three mares with their furniture and geares, with all & singular my husbandry instruments as Cartes ploughes, waines, harrowes Etc. Item I give & bequeath unto my said Sonne Raph a long table which now standes in the parlour, and a dishboard & a cubbord and a Bacon chest which stand in the dwelling howse Item I leave devise & bequeath unto my said sonne Raph Bushell my howse howsing & landes which I have in Frodsham to have & to hold the same after my decease he paying (as my will is) unto his brother Thomas my eldest sonne the summe of five pounds in case my said Thomas be living & shall returne into his native Countrey:
Item I give & bequeath unto my son Edward Bushell the summe of eight pounds. Item I give & bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth Mosse sixe shillings. Item I give & bequeath to my daughter Mary Hinton fowre pounds. Item I give & bequeath to my son in law Thomas Mosse two shillings sixe pence & likewise I bequeath to William Hinton two shillings & six pence. Item I give and bequeath to my grandchild Edward Mosse the son of Thomas tenne pounds. Item I give and bequeath to my other two grandchildren Jonathan & Elizabeth Mosse children to the said thomas Mosse either of them fiftie shillings. Item I give & bequeath unto my two grandchildren the sons of William Hinton either five pounds. Item all the residue of my goods moveable & unmoveable Cattells & Chattells whatsoever I leave give and bequeath unto my wife Alice Bushell & my son Raph Bushell to be equally dividied between them after the payment & discharge of my debts funerall expence & the forementioned legacies. item lastly I ordaine constitute & make my said wife Alice Bushell & my forementioned Son Raph Bushell ioynt executors of this my last will & Testament hopeing that they (as my trust in them reposed is) will see this my last will & Testament truely executed & performed according to the Contents & true meaning thereof:
Randle [seal] Bushell
testator
his T mark
Sealed Signed and delivered in the presence of:
Samuell Worrell
Tho: Moseley.
[proved 19 November 1670]
November the 19th 1670
This is to Certifie the Court that I Alice Bushell of Frodsham in the Countie of Chester Widdow being visseted with sicknes under the hand of god, & not Able nether to goe nor ride, doe by these presents give my son Raph Bushill being Joynt executor with me, of my husbands last Will & Testament full power to prove the same According to law in that behalfe, As well as if I were in parsonall presents My selfe to p[er]forme the same In Witnes where unto I have set my hand & seale
Alice Bushill [seal]
her V marke
Wittnes
Jane Carter her marke
John Pannry[?]
November the 3:th 1670
A true & p[er]fect Inventory of all the goods Cattells & Chattells of Randle Bushell of Frodsham in the Countie of Chester husbandman deceased taken & apprised by William Jonson Abraham Garratt Samueall Woorull & John Banner As Followeth/
Imprimis ten Milk beasts & six twinters vallued to --- 29-10-00
Item. three rearings vallued --- 01-10-00
Item. one horse & three mares vallued --- 10-00-00
Item. Carts, weanes, wheels, ploughs harrowes & gears with all meterialls thereunto belonging vallued to --- 03-10-00
Item. barely otes & Codwares unthreshen vallued to ---05-00-00
Item. tea vallued to ---08-00-00
Item. Cheese vallued to --- 16-04-00
Item. Sheepe vallued to --- 05-00-00
Item. Swine vallued --- 02-10-00
Item. all the brass vallued to --- 02-00-00
Item. all the pewter vallued to --- 01-10-00
Item. all the Cooperey ware vallued to --- 01-06-03
Item. the Chese press vallued to --- 00-02-00
Item. all the Chears & Stooles vallued to --- 00-10-00
Item. all the Iorn ware vallued to --- 00-10-00
Item. a Cubord dishbord bacon Chest & a table vallued to --- 03-10-00
Item. All the bedstids & boulsters vallued to --- 03-00-00
Item. Coverings & hengings vallued to --- 03-00-00
Item. threshen Corne vallued to --- 01-05-00
Item Coufers & a little table vallued to --- 00-10-00
Item two goeing wheeles & one Sitting wheele vallued to --- 00-05-00
Item wooll vallued to --- 01-00-00
Item new twill window sheets & socks vallued to --- 00-10-00
Item hemp & hempseed vallued to --- 01-00-00
Item Cards yarmgles & a pare of skoals vallued --- 00-02-00
Item Sheets table Close & napkins vallued to --- 04-00-00
Item geese & poultrey ware vallued to --- 00-13-04
Item wheat soone on the ground vallued to --- 02-00-00
Item baskits flaskits sifes ridles & a hafe measure vallued to --- 00-02-06
Item [...] & tresels vallued to --- 00-02-00
Item earthen vessells --- 00-01-00
Item [...] wood vallued to -- 01-00-00
Item [...] visells vallued to --- [...]
Item [...] Apparell [...]
Sum. 113-17[...]
Commentary
Randle’s parentage
The 1614 will of Raphe Bushell of Frodsham names his eldest son Randle and his other children Thomas and Mary. All children are under the age of 21. The Frodsham parish register records the baptisms of Thomas in 1606 and Mary in 1611. Randle’s baptism does not appear in the register, but a birth of about 1604 would fit with Randle’s 1632 marriage in Frodsham.
Raphe’s 1614 will names his wife Elizabeth. The 1629 will of William Cally of Frodsham names “my syster Elizabeths children”, to whom his leaves a “swarm” of bees. He does not explicitly name Elizabeth’s children, but among bequests to other relatives he leaves bequests to Thomas and Randle Bushell. Thomas Bushell is made an executor and Randle Bushell was a witness to the will.
In his will, Raphe names his brother-in-law Randle Whitby. Randle Whitby was the husband of Raphe’s sister Jane, not the brother of Raphe’s wife.
There is not direct evidence that Elizabeth Cally was Randle Bushell’s mother, but the circumstantial evidence is pretty good.
References
Bishop’s transcripts, Frodsham. Digital images on Findmypast.co.uk accessed 17 November 2019.
Parish registers, Frodsham. Digital images on Findmypast.co.uk accessed 17 November 2019.
Will of Randle Bushell of Frodsham, husbandman. Proved 1670 in the Consistory Court of Chester. Digital images on Findmypast.co.uk accessed 17 November 2019.
Will of Raphe Bushell of Frodsham, webster. Proved 1614 in the Consistory Court of Chester. Digital images on Findmypast.co.uk accessed 17 November 2019.