Bushong
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Language(s) | German / Swiss German |
Region of origin | Switzerland and Palatinate |
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Variant form(s) | Bushon |
Bushong is a surname found mostly in the United States, derived from the surname Boschung found mainly in Switzerland, but also in the Palatinate and other regions in Western Europe.
Surname history
The American surname, Bushong and variant Bushon, prior to being anglicized, was the German-Swiss name, Boschung. The spelling was changed after immigration to Colonial America. The immigrants, Hans and Johann Nicholas both arrived as Boschung, Hans in 1731 and Johann Nicholas in 1732. The original ships manifests and transcriptions list them as Boschung, but the spelling was changed in their American lives.[1][2]
The origin and meaning of the Bushong surname
One favored theory is the surname is based on two syllables, Bosch and ung. Bosch is considered a Germanic topographical name, derived from the Latin word, boscus which translates to wood, as in forest.[3] Subsequently, the patronymic suffix ung was added to the original name and means descendants of (the Bosch).[4] It has been theorized that the reason to differentiate from an original Bosch family, with the addition of the suffix, was that there had been a large well established Bosch family. The patronymic suffix identified them as having separated by proximity from the original family.[5] In other words, the families who moved away were not the Bosch, they were the Boschung. All occurring as surnames were beginning to be the accepted practice.[6]
Origination of the Boschung family
There are several Boschung family lines, originating in Switzerland, one of which started in 1750, when a line Bosson, changed its names spelling to Boschung.[7] Another line began in 1600 in Boltigen, Switzerland, with a name change from Studer, and this is believed to be beginning of the Colonial American Bushong.[8][9][10] However, the Boschung name is first noted in the 1520s in Jaun, Fribourg, Switzerland and in the 1530s a few miles away in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland.[nb 1] These families whether related or not represent the majority of the Boschung.[8] All would have been spoken a Swiss German dialect, more specifically its predecessor western High Alemannic dialect (Bernese German).
Colonial period immigration to the United States
![Hans Boschung signature 1731, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Hans_Boschung%27s_signature_1731.jpg/166px-Hans_Boschung%27s_signature_1731.jpg)
![Johann Nicholas Boschung's signature from the 1732 Oath of Allegiance.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Johann_Nicholas_Boschung%27s_signature_1732.jpg/150px-Johann_Nicholas_Boschung%27s_signature_1732.jpg)
For the vast majority, the Bushong Family of America descend from two immigrants, Hans Boschung and Johann Nicholas Boschung.[8][12][13] Hans and Johann Nicholas Boschung arrived in port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1731 and 1732 respectively.[1][2] They were Protestants of the Reformed Swiss sect, who left Switzerland and spent some years in the Palatinate.[nb 2]
![Copy of the "John and William" ships manifest.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/19/The_Pink_%22John_and_William%22_ships_manifest.jpg/166px-The_Pink_%22John_and_William%22_ships_manifest.jpg)
![Copy of the 1732 Oath of Allegiance.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/Pink_%22John_and_William%22_Oath_of_Allegiance.jpg/165px-Pink_%22John_and_William%22_Oath_of_Allegiance.jpg)
Hans Boschung immigrated with his family on the ship Brittania and qualified for entry to the Colonies September 21, 1731. They were listed, Barbara age 37, and their children, Magdelen age 11, Hans Phillip age 9, Ana Barbara age 6, Christiana age 3.[1]
Johann Nicholas Boschung immigrated with his family on the ill-fated voyage of the pink John and William and qualified for entry to the Colonies October 17, 1732.[nb 3] Listed on the manifest as Paschun, with his wife, Magdalena (over 16) and their children, Hendrich, Eve, Andreas, Maria.[2]
The Bushongs originally settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where they were members of the Salem Hellers Reformed Church. [1][14][nb 4] Today descendants who can trace their ancestry back to Hans and Johann Nicholas Bushong number in the thousands.[8]
Post-colonial immigration to the United States
![Ellis Island in 1905](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Ellis_Island_in_1905.jpg/220px-Ellis_Island_in_1905.jpg)
There are a few other family lines with the Bushong surname in America. Some are descended from French Catholics who immigrated from Nova Scotia, Canada to the United States in the 19th and 20th century while others are descended from slaves of the Bushongs prior to the American Civil War.[17][nb 5] There also appear to be a few different lines of European Bushongs. These families immigrated to the United States in the mid to late 19th century from what was a war torn central Europe and took the Bushong name. But with about 1.2 million other mostly Germans immigrants, there was at least one Greek Bushong.[nb 6] Their surnames all had various original spellings, Bushing, Busching, Buchen, Bushan, and others. During this period the most common immigration destination in the United States was New York, through Ellis Island.
Descendant Bushong lines
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Hans Bushong abt 1692-1749 | Barbara abt 1694-1737 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Johannes Paul Eckman 1708-1776 | Magdalena 1720-aft 1747 | Hans Philip 1722-1785 | Anna Eve Hergard 1733-1778 | Philip Grim 1723-1793 | Anna Barbara 1725-1806 | Christina 1728- ? | John 1732-1808 | Elizabeth Sprinkel 1732-1821 | Jacob 1735-1811 | Julianna Weigel 1733-1810 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 children | 9 children | 9 children | 10 children | 10 children | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hans Bushong is known to have had grandchildren through five children.
Johannes Paul Eckman and Magdalena
- John 1744-1804
- Jacob 1746-1806
- Mary Magdalena 1748-1834
- Peter 1750-1811
- John Henry 1754-1821
- Hieronimus 1758-1824
- John Martin 1759-1829
- Daniel 1763-1829
Hans Philip and Anna Eva Hergard
- John 1750-1831
- Barbara 1752- ?
- Hans Philip 1761- ?
- Peter 1762-1833
- Henry W. 1763-1845
- Jacob 1767-1828
- David 1767-1827
- Mary Magdalene 1717-1827
- Elizabeth 1778- ?
Philip Grimm and Anna Barbara
- Christina 1751-1786
- John Peter 1754- ?
- Philip Ludwig 1756-1829
- Michael 1757- ?
- Maria 1758- ?
- Barbara 1760- ?
- Peter abt 1762- ?
- John Daniel 1762-1825
- Jacob 1764- 1803
John and Elizabeth Sprenkel
- John Jacob 1754-1830
- George 1755-1809
- John 1756-1796
- Elizabeth 1759-1839
- Margaret 1761-1844
- Ann Marie 1763-1826
- William 1765-1837
- Peter 1771-1859
- Andrew 1773-1853
- Catherine 1777-1870
Jacob and Julianna Weigel
- Jacob abt 1755-1816
- Anna Maria Margaretha 1755-1826
- Mary Elizabeth 1756-1799
- Magdalena 1759- ?
- Juliana Euly 1761-1812
- Catherine 1762- ?
- Barbara 1775-1798
- Philip 1778- ?
- David 1787- ?
- Maria Susannah Sabrina 1787- ?
Some common Bushong myths
The colonial immigrant Bushongs descend from Beauchamp
In the beginning of the 20th century, it was thought that Colonial Bushongs descended from the French Beauchamps and that the name was originally spelled that way. It is not certain exactly when the myth originated, but in 1900 Oscar Kuhns published The Germans and Swiss settlements of colonial Pennsylvania: a study of the so-called Pennsylvania Dutch. In it he stated the Bushongs were French Huguenots and their name was originally Beauchamp...
"These German names almost all came from the Palatinate and Switzerland. Even today we can trace the Swiss origin of many-for instance, Urner (from Uri), Johns (Tschantz), Neagley (Naegeli), Bossler (Baseler). Some are of French Huguenot origin, which by combined German and English influence have often received a not very elegant or euphonious form: examples are Lemon (Le Mon), Bushong (Beauchamp)".
Rev. A. Stapleton published this book in 1901- "Memorials of the Huguenots in America, with special reference to their emigration to Pennsylvania"
"Beauchamp, — In 1731 arrived; Beauchamp and wife Barbara, the head of the "Bushong" family, now so numerous in America. He located in East Lampeter, near the Heller Church. He was born in France in 1692. His son Jacob located in Berks county and was the head of the Bushong family of Berks county, while another son, Peter, emigrated to the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, and founded the Southern branch."
Multiple lines of colonial Bushongs immigrated
One theory fostered by some, was that there were numerous different lines of Bushongs entering Colonial America, some with different spellings. To date there is no evidence to support this theory and to the contrary, thousands of Bushong descendants are listed as descendants of Hans Boschung and Johann Nicholas Boschung's son, Andreas. With a charting project for the entire Bushong 1930 United States Census completed and most identified, it makes multiple lines that much more improbable.[18]
Bosang descend from Bushong
This myth was first mentioned in the late 1980s or early 1990s by several Bushong researchers, who perceived a similarity between the surnames Bosang and Bushong. It was suggested that David Bosang, whose name was spelled Bosseng before it was Anglicized, had been a Bushong in Europe prior to leaving. Though lacking any European documentation, the myth gained a degree of legitimacy through repeated publishing of Bosang's United States documentation mixed with the Bushong name. It is probable that Bosseng is a variant spelling of the surname Bossong.
Some notable people, places, and businesses
- Dr. Lee C. Bushong, U.S. Marine, deputy sheriff, and professor.
- Albert J. "Doc" Bushong D.D.S., Baseball player, Dentist
- Howard F. Bushong, American baseball coach
- Robert Grey Bushong, U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania
- Bushong, Kansas
- Bushong's Mill Covered Bridge, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Notes
- ^ Johann Boschung was born about 1525 in Jaun, Fribourg, Switzerland. Barthlome Boschung was born about 1533 and baptized in Saanen, Bern, Switzerland. Both are charted in the Bushong United Family Tree.[11]
- ^ In 1731, the Reformed Church of Holland and the Synod of Dort helped to facilitate the passengers of the Brittania, and visited them as a body.
"While the Synod of South Holland was in session in Dort, 1731, eight hundred exiled Palatines passed through the place to take ship at Rotterdam for America. They were visited by the whole Synod in a body and were furnished with provisions and medicines. After Christian exhortation, prayer and singing, they were dismissed with the assurance that they might rely upon the Church of Holland for support in their new abode."-- Ger. Ref. Almanac p. 22 for 1865.[1]
- ^ The voyage in 1732, was apparently Ships Master, Captain Tymperton and the John and William's only crossing. During the voyage, 44 passengers perished and with many sick, it ended in mutiny delaying their arrival. It is also possible that on the voyage, Johann Nicholas' son by the same name, born 1727 in Germany, was one of those who died.
- ^ The Bushongs were members of the First Reformed Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Also sailing with the Boschungs on the Brittania was a Johannes Batholomay Rieger. His name, on the ship's manifest, is followed with, the old German Hochteutscher Prediger which translated means high German preacher. In Lancaster County, Rev. Rieger became a well known Reformed minister in several area churches, including the Salem Hellers Reformed Church.[2][15][16]
- ^ Find these Bushongs and others in the Bushong United Family Tree [11]
- ^ Samuel Theodore Bushong, from Greece, changed his name to Bushong from Bozinakis. He was the founder of the Bushong Candy Company, Wichita, Kansas.[11]
- ^ Jenette Young is descended from the Clan Lamont of Scotland.[11]
References
- ^ a b c d e A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and Other Immigrants in Pennsylvania page 67
- ^ a b c d A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and Other Immigrants in Pennsylvania page 84
- ^ About.com German Surnames Archived 2012-07-12 at the Wayback Machine. Surname Database Bosch. Family Education Bosch
- ^ see also German placename etymology
- ^ The Origins and Meaning of the Swiss Bushong/Boschung Surname
- ^ Wikipedia German Family Name Etymology
- ^ The Fribourg Institute of Heraldry and Genealogy
- ^ a b c d Find the Descendants of Hans and Johann Nicholas Bushong
- ^ "Beyond Bushong on The Bushong United Website". Archived from the original on 2015-12-25. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
- ^ Compliments of Dietmar Meyer, author, Register for the 1st and 2nd church book of the Reformed parish Waldfischbach, published 1986 and 1988, in Zweibrücken
- ^ a b c d Search the Bushong United Family Tree
- ^ The Only Surviving Colonial American Bushong Family
- ^ The Only Surviving Colonial American Bushong Family Line-Step by Step
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Reformed Church in the United States" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 24–25.
- ^ The Reformed Church of Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- ^ Salem Hellers Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- ^ The Bushong Slave Owners and Their Slaves
- ^ The 1930 Census for all Bushongs is Charted!
Further reading
- I. Daniel Rupp, A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and Other Immigrants in Pennsylvania 2nd Edition, Copyright 1898
- Wikipedia Swiss Folklore
- Find Most Bushongs in the Bushong United Family Tree
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