52 Ancestors 2020 Week 5: Far Away

Great Great Grandfather Joseph Emlyn Buswell worked in his father's tailoring shop.  The main industry in Leicester, England during the mid- 19th century was producing hosiery and footwear.

In his mid-twenties he left his mother, father and sister in Leicester to emigrate to the United States sometime between the years of 1881-1884. That is almost 5000 miles to San Antonio!  Leicester's population was about 200,000 at that time.

Thus far I have been unable to locate immigration or ship records showing where he left England or where entered the United States but I will keep looking.  I would love to know what lead him to settle in southwest Texas.  

The records show that he was married to Mollie Sutherland in San Antonio, Texas on the 25th of February 1884 and later had two children, a son and a daughter.  A few short years thereafter the Buswell family settled in Rockspring, Texas which had a population of just a few hundred people.

He died very young at age 38.    My research says he was born in 1857.