James Bull

  Research Notes:

Tony Buckley notes:
Kerry Mahony dug up a story from the Sydney Gazette of 1822 involving James Bull. Seems when travelling with his son and daughter between Liverpool and Sydney they were bailed up by a pair of bushrangers. A former soldier James was having none of that. There was a shoot out. His daughter got a bullet in the arm, son lost an eye, bushrangers retreated bleeding. Now the mystery. James died young the following month. A later historical footnote suggests he was killed by bushrangers though the Gazette had not inferred he was wounded. Then again in those days of basic medicine you could get wounded and take a month to die from infection. Still working on that.

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James married Ann Wilson on 22 Oct 1798 in Aston Juxta, Birmingham, Warwickshire England. (Ann Wilson was born circa 1770 in Birmingham, Warwickshire England and died on 2 Apr 1833 in Liverpool (Irish Town), Sydney NSW Australia.)