Annie Hack was born in Brighton, daughter of James Hack.
In 1861, aged 19, she was working as a Servant in West Grinstead, in the house of widower John Gates, a Landowner. There was also a Housekeeper.
In 1866 Annie married Thomas Bushby in Brighton. They went on to have 9 children.
In 1871 they were living in Anchor Road, Worthing now Lyndhurst Road with their first three children, son Arthur Ernest, 3, daughters Jennie Rose, 2, and Agnes May, 5 months. Thomas was a Gardener, as he was 10 years later, then living in Park Terrace, with Annie, Arthur, Jennie, May (Agnes), plus Thomas, Frederick and Evelyn.
In 1881 and 1891 they were living at Heene Farm - also known as Bushby's Farm which was where numbers 131 and 141 Heene Road are now some of the old flint walls still stand. Thomas was then a Market Gardener and Nurseryman, with sons Arthur, Thomas and Frederick as his Assistants. They had one Domestic Servant, Fanny Grinsted from Nuthurst.
In 1901 the family were living at The Homestead, Heene. (In Pigot's 1823 Directory, there was a Homestead in Downview Rd and another in St Botolph's Rd.) Thomas was now a Farmer and Fruit Grower, Employer, with Annie, daughters Jennie and Evelyn at home, single, and a 17 year-old Domestic Servant, Annie Driscoll.
In 1911 they were living at Heene Croft, in Heene Road. Croft Cottage is the flint-walled house with barred windows in Heene Road, between Winchester and Shelley Roads. It is likely that this is the same place as Heene Croft. Thomas was a Market Gardener, living with Annie, daughters Jennie, Agnes Mary, now a widow, and Evelyn Annie Buckeridge. They had a daughter, Vera, in 1907, but she died in 1908.
In the 1921 Census, Annie, now widowed, was still living with daughters Jessie and Evelyn, at Heene Croft, 69 Heene Road. They had a Domestic Servant, Ethel Turman.
When Annie died, still at Heene Croft, she gave probate to daughters Jennie and Evelyn Annie.
In 1953 a window in the Church was dedicated to Thomas and Annie Bushby.