Good Morning, I have just read that the name Busby came from a Scandanavian word meaning "bush". My great grandmother was born in Mason County, Iowa (?) in the 1850's and came west in the early 1860's in a wagon train. Her name was Mary Ann. She and her sister Matilda married Wm. Galloway and Samuel Galloway (brothers) in Oregon/Washington. They had two brothers, one of which was named Greenberry Haywood Solomon Sherwood Busby. He never married and was known as Uncle Green to his nieces and nephews. I'm sure there were other siblings as well. Their father became ill en route, most likely in the Blue Mountains of Oregon, and the family were left by their wagon train to await his death. They made it in to Fort Walla Walla during a snow storm later in the year. There was an older brother to the the family who must have come West at the same time and probably was married to a cousin. I don't know if he stayed with his mother and helped, or went on with the train. If anyone knows more of this story, I'd love to hear from you. Linda Knettle At 10:24 PM 12/18/99 -0600, you wrote: >> I have read somewhere the Buzby name derived from Hungary.I believe the >>name means bear(Hungarian),hence the headgear the English guards wear are >>called buzby's,made of bearskin. > > >Interesting question and I hope someone can answer this :) > >But I have a little bit of trivia. Has anyone's Busby ancestors been bee >keepers? My grandfather, Thomas Busby Jr. was a bee keeper and a farmer. >Can you imagine... people talking about Busby's bees :))) But it was the >best honey around! :) > >Lonna > > > >==== BUSBY Mailing List ==== >Busby Family Homepage: >http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~busby/index.htm >Listowner: Barbara Peddicord mailto:nashoba@cdsnet.net > > >