Posthumous Bush

From what I can glean, Posthumous Bush b. c 1676 in Bristol was my 8th great grandfather. He lived to be more than 90, which was a Methuselahlain task in the days before antibiotics.
Posthumous may have been named so, if he was born after the death of his father, but for at least 3 generations, the name was passed down through the family.
He married Elizabeth Speak, from Bath, at St Mary's in Bristol in 1696. Elizabeth and Posthumous set up home in Bradford on Avon and they had 8 children. Of those 8, at least 5 survived to adulthood, including my 7th great grandfather Francis.
Posthumous was a lanarius (woolworker),

One of his sons was non-conformist, and according to papers from Leicester University his son (another Posthumous) registered his home as a place of worship.
(The following text is taken from http://www.britishhistory.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol7/pp4-51)
"Bearfield Congregational church, formerly the Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel, appears to have originated as an Independent society in or before 1787. In that year 'Bethel Chapel' was built at Bearfield and opened for worship by the Revd. Mr. Norman. Services were conducted according to the forms of the Church of England. Norman left the town a few years later. The chapel was supplied for a time by ministers from Bath, including a Mr. Bargest, but declined and was closed. The building was bought by Mr. Posthumous Bush of Bradford. Not long after, it was bought from Bush by the Revd. Thomas Watkins of Bath. Watkins, who had married a wealthy woman from the West Indies, settled in Bradford and built himself a house. He reopened the chapel for worship, built a new gallery, and gathered 'a good and respectable congregation'. He died in 1802, and was buried under the pulpit."

Both Posthumous and Francis owned land in Bradford on Avon, this can be seen in the Bradford land tax record of 1743.

The family still owned land in the area in 1841, this is show to be so in the tithe map of the area. (217/218 were owned by the Bush family)

(image from http://www.freshford.com/1841_tithe_map_list.htm)

Posthumous died in 1761, his will gave provision for his living children and a number of other beneficiaries, most bequests were for the sum of £30 or less. It seems that he wrote off a fair few debts owed to him by my 7th great grandfather, his son, Francis. This is shown in a section of the will. Francis was the executor.