Born about in Horsham, Sussex, England
Ancestors 
Daughter of Henry Quenell Jr
and Beatrix (Carter) Quenell
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Francis Bushnell
— married
13 May 1605 in Horsham, Sussex, England
Descendants 
Mother of
Edmund Bushnell, Francis Bushnell, William Bushnell, Stephen Bushnell, John Bushnell, Thomas Bushnell, Mary Bushnell, Rebecca (Bushnell) Lord, Richard Bushnell I, Sarah (Bushnell) Hoadley and Elizabeth Bushnell
Died
at about age 39
in Horsham, Sussex, England
Profile last modified
| Created 21 Sep 2010
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Biography
Ferris Quenell was christened at Horsham, Sussex, on the 17th day of April, 1587, a daughter of Henry and Beatrix Quenell (recorded as Quynnell); she married Francis Bushnell, Jr. (recorded as Frannces/Frauncis), at Horsham on the 13th of May, 1605.
Ferris (Quenell) Bushnell died on the 10th of March, 1627 -- due to complications of childbirth five days previous -- along with her tenth child, Elizabeth.
Sources
- Birth (christening): "Ferris Quynnell | Baptism | 17 Apr 1587 | Sussex | Horsham | St Mary the Virgin | Transcript" -- FreeReg UK, Transcript, St. Mary the Virgin, Horsham, Sussex, transcribed by Stephen Biggs; https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_queries/5eb371194325a6479c245754?locale=en
- Marriage: "Ferris Quenell/Frannces Bushnell | Marriage | 13 May 1605 | Sussex | Horsham : St Mary the Virgin : Parish Register" -- FreeReg UK, Parish Register, St Mary the Virgin, Horsham, Sussex, transcribed by John Doze; https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_queries/5eb37303791e3b7c09fe9f2a?locale=en
- Death (NEHGS): “Pre-Ameican Ancestries: XII. Francis Bushnell of Horsham, Sussex, and Guilford, Connecticut”, TAG Vol. 16, p. 46; The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .); https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/11882/46/0 (subscription)
- Bushnell family genealogy : ancestry and posterity of Francis Bushnell, 1580-1646, of Horsham, England and Guilford, Connecticut; Bushnell, George Eleazer, Nashville, 1945, p. 25; https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89082470139&view=1up&seq=18
- Colonial families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut : being the ancestry & kindred of Herbert Furman Seversmith, Seversmith, Herbert Furman, Washington, mimeographed typescript, Vol. 2, Bushnell to Fordham, District of Columbia, 1939, "Bushnell", pp. 511-534; https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89063148563&view=1up&seq=19
See also:
- Dawes-Gates ancestral lines : a memorial volume containing the American ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Ferris, Mary Walton, Milwaukee: Wisconsin Cuneo Press, 1931-1943, Vol. II, The American ancestry of Mary Beman (Gates) Dawes, privately printed (includes indexes; "References" at end of each chapter), "Gates and Allied Families", p. 170-171, "Note"; https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066039439&view=1up&seq=246
- Dawes-Gates ancestral lines : a memorial volume containing the American ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Ferris, Mary Walton, Milwaukee: Wisconsin Cuneo Press, 1931-1943, Vol. 1, The American ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, "Beamsley Family", Vol. 1, p. 85, footnote; https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066183567&view=1up&seq=119
- Founders and Patriots of America Index, Family Data Collection - Births, Edmund West, comp.; online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001.
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Christopher Childs
Christopher Childs
Ferris's birth record at Horsham shows her surname as "Quynnell", and it is possible the profile should show this as LNAB; however, the spelling "Quenell" appears in her marriage record and may have been common in the family. I have left Quenell in place on this latter assumption.
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