This transcribed document came to light in February 2005.
Family tree updated accordingly - March 3rd. 2005
Geneology of Buss Family
Our Great.Grand father was Notary & Schoolmaster at Tunbridge in the County of Kent, England. Note: “A notary in those days was a lawyer, and a schoolmaster and carried a very high social position.” (these are James G. T. Buss’s words.) “He had five sons = viz:
W. C. Buss, Engraver
G. Buss our Grandfather – Bookbinder
Robert Buss - Officer in the Army
Austin Buss – In the East India Government
Henry Buss – (Gentleman) which means he had private fortune (I believe he married into a wealthy family.)
Our Great Uncle W.C. Buss had four sons
Robert Buss – who was a celebrated artist
Charles Buss – Merchant
William Buss – Doctor
Henry Buss – Engraver
Our Grandfather George Buss had two sons:
Richard Fleetwood Buss
George Ebenezer Buss
Our father Richard Fleetwood Buss had two sons:
Richard Alfred Buss
James George T. Buss
Our uncle George Buss had no children
Richard Alfred Buss two sons:
Richard Montgomery Buss
William David Buss
With this you can get made a geneological Family Tree. You see it is only the male line but onto [our] father’s family branch you can add Mary and Charlotte and from Charlotte you see spring the Gault branch, as also in your own family you can add Sadie and Annie. Can put Sarah died unmarried – then with Annie starts another branch, the Whittinghams and as far as your boys are concerned they work out other branches. Americans think much of the Ancestral Trees – & with this information a good geneologist would produced something ( ? ) satisfactory.
The descendants of grandfather’s other three brothers were not on the paper.”
Prepared by James George T. Buss
From an E-mail from Mary Quayle: Feb 9th, 2005
I am still seeking clarifications to questions I have about James George T. Buss, and Mary's connection to him. - (Michael Buss)