William Bush, fishmonger born around 1853

[Deirdre784]

There’s aWilliam Bush aged 4 months on the 1851, born Penybont, Abergavenny, with William and Margaret Bush. Possible marriage of William Bush and Margaret Edmunds in Abergavenny in 1849, maybe a mistranscription on the birth entry 🤔

[Deirdre784]

This is turning into a real puzzle, even more so as i was looking for William Bush junior.

Turns out that daughter / sister Ruth died aged 13 in Brynmawr in 1881, but registered by John Bush, father, huckster 🙄 Buried with her mother Emma (died 1906), both named on the headstone. William is buried with them (died 1904) but not named. 🤔

[wilcoxon]

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3742142/3742149/132/William%2BOR%2Bbush?from=search

William Bush.1899 Aberdare. A fish market is mentioned

[Deirdre784]

Thanks Wilcoxon, assuming this is now the younger Wm.
William senior entered on 1901 in Brynmawr, aged 90 (though i believe he was around 10 years younger), former greengrocer.

[wilcoxon]

1900 Aberdare. William Bush fish hawker 
https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3030509/3030512/29/William%2BOR%2Bbush?from=search

[Deirdre784]

Thanks again Wilcoxon, not seen that one, though have found plenty of others.
Sadly none mention his father or a wife by name to tie the family down, nor any addresses.
He appears to move to Llanbradach (Caerphilly) in 1905, leaving a wife chargeable to the Crickhowell parish.

[wilcoxon]

There's a few of that name around.  The one in the Aberdare Court / market is in court again but this time he's a green grocer.
1901 William Bush b1851 married born   Maesteg is in Prison in Swansea .He is a general labourer speaks English.
Just to help eliminate some.

[Deirdre784]

Thanks, didn’t find many William Bushes when i started this a few days ago, but they are coming thick and fast now.

Have found a funeral report for his brother Thomas in 1936 in Llanbradach, where a Mr W Bush brother was in attendance, so he was still alive then though in his eighties. Ties in with the report of him abandoning his wife to the Crickhowell parish.

[wilcoxon]

Radnor Express - Thursday 21 September 1905
Wm Bush, fishmonger, was brought up on a warrant, at the instance of the Crickhowell Guardians, charged with neglecting to maintain his wife
J. 'F. Turner, relieving officer, said defendant Wm Bush was the husband of Margaret Bush. now an inmate in the Crickhowell Union Workhouse,

there is a lot more. unfortunately I can't attach images  , a problem with my settings