John Rushby

Samuel Rushby from Sutton, Notts married Jane Barlow of Tuxford, Notts in 1880 in the Retford area, Samuel was a farm labourer and moved around over the years living at Tuxford, Bothamsall, Elksley, Weston, Grove, Headon cum Upton, before settling in Darlton, Notts around 1900, where he ran his own farm called Majors farm. He and wife Jane, over their married life, produced eleven children, Ellen, Sam, Tom, Eliza, John, Geo Wm, Jenny, Annie, Richard, Benjamin and Winifred. Their fifth child, John Rushby, who had been born in 1886 in Weston, Notts had left the family home and was living as a boarder on the farm of John Marsh at Marnham, near East Retford and employed as a 15 year old cattle and cowboy. By 1913 he was living in the Burton on Trent area where he married Hilda Daisy Smith and in 1916 had a daughter who they named, Lilian.