Benjamin and Elizabeth Mousley had five children. Their children are Fanny Larard (née Mousley)'s cousins.
- 38.1.1 - Samuel Wright Mousley (1805-1841)
- No known children
- 38.1.2 - Mary Ann Mousley (1806-1892)
- No known children
- 38.1.3 - Thomas Mousley (1808-1860)
- See Chapter 38
- 38.1.4 - George Mousley (1812-1869)
- Catherine Blanche Mousley (1842-1891)
- Married Henry Cox Bury (1830-1884) in Bilton nr Rugby, Warwickshire in 1865. My photos of Rugby are here.
- Henry had previously (1858) married Sarah Hardy in Stratford-upon-Avon. She had died a few months later in Ceylon.
- The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust have a reference to a Henry Cox Bury making a will in Stratford in 1863, and having been of Stratford, late of Ceylon, coffee planter.
- A devastating leaf disease, Hemileia vastatrix, struck the coffee plantations in 1869, destroying the entire industry within fifteen years. The British quickly found a replacement: abandoning coffee, they began cultivating tea instead. Tea production in Sri Lanka thrived in the following decades.
- My photos of Stratford are here.
- Children:
- Arthur Cecil Howard Bury (1866)
- Arthur William Howard Bury (1868)
- Francis Charles Bury (1868)
- Edith Elizabeth Bury (1869)
- Catherine Maude Bury (1872)
- George Wyman Bury (1874)
- Rose Aimee Bury (1874)
- Henry John Bury (1883)
- 1881: Henry was an East India merchant. They lived at 'Eryl Aran', Bala, Merionethshire, Wales, with no fewer than six servants.
- 1882: Quoted in the Tropical Agriculturalist (1 Feb): As a Haputale proprietor (Mr. H. C. Bury) now on a visit to his fine properties, said to us yesterday There is far too much outcry over the falling-off in Ceylon coffee production. Taking the estimate for the current season of 600,000 cwts. and contrasting it with our highest outturn, the decrease is not much more than a third. Now what would British farmers say if they could during their cycle of depression point to crops of even one-half those they harvested some years before. Ceylon is not alone in her planting depression; agriculture all over the world (save perhaps in certain favoured portions of North and South America) has been suffering; but a turn in the tide must be approaching. It cannot, surely, be in the designs of Providence that the fungus should be permanent in Ceylon, any more than that the iniquity of slavery should continue to exist in Brazil. The latter is doomed, and so, we hope and believe, is the former." [Haputale now grows tea.]
- George William Mousley (1844-1869)
- Enrolled with University of London in 1863 but did not complete his degree
- Died in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey
- 38.1.5 - Elizabeth Mousley (1822-1893)
- No known children
More on these families in Chapter 58.
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