Thats interesting what you say on Busby, my grandmothers maiden name was Busby but my great grandfather was from Ireland. I am unable to find his birth or parents marriage & their deaths. I have found a family of Busby from Antrim his county who go way back. There is a Busby list this is mostly American Busbys for those who are interested Sheila Senior England ----- Original Message ----- From: <MReilly169@aol.com> To: <CARIBBEAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 6:57 PM Subject: Re: East Indian Indenture Immigration W.I. Names/Caste/Bengali > Just curious; my uncle by marriage was a Busby on his mother's side. They were from Rhode Island. I would think Busby is an English or Scottish name (lowland Scots and English are basically the same linguistically), as I understand it most Statians are of British descent albeit Dutch nationality. That -by suffice is Scandinavian, denoting a place name, but I forget exactly what it means, village I think. It's common in England and Scotland because of the heavy Norse settlement in the Middle Ages, the extent of which can be gauged by the name Ingleby, meaning "English Village," which tends to show that villages inhabited by the English stood out from the norm in Northern England at the time. I don't know what Busby means but it seems likely that all Busby families originate in the town of Busby, except for those who adopted the name. There may well be more than one town named Busby, however. > I would think if any Indians took the Busby name from American missionaries, they would have been Baptist, Methodist, or Congretationalist. Maybe Quaker. In any event some evangelical sect of British origin, and not Anglican or Lutheran. But then it would be hard to distinguish them from converts by English and Scottish missionaries, who were also active in the same places. The Scots would be more likely to be Presbyterian, I would think. > > > ==== CARIBBEAN Mailing List ==== > For information on individual islands, research aids, island bulletin boards or history please visit the CaribbeanGenWeb project at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~caribgw/ >