dozens of Noongar people were killed. In 1842 Charles Bussell shot and killed a little Noongar girl called Cumangoot when questioning her about stealing flour from the family's stores. Charles was charged with manslaughter and fined one shilling. Correspondence archives Many of the Bussells were prolific letter-writers, and much of their correspondence has been preserved. These letters provide an outstanding record of the lives of a class of settler that were largely neglected by contemporary historians and record-keepers. Consequently, they have been much studied by modern historians. On 14 August 2007, The West Australian newspaper reported that the J S Battye Library had paid a possible WA record $91,000 at auction for the personal diaries of Vernon Bussell. Members of the Bussell family include: Ellen Louisa Bussell her first son John Bussell (1803–1875), explorer and MLC his wife Charlotte Bussell (1803–1899) his daughter Capel Carter Brockman (1839–1924) was named after a Miss Capel Carter, (a cousin of the Bussels in England with whom family members corresponded), after whom is named the Capel River and the town and Shire of Capel her second son William Bussell (who did not emigrate with the rest of the family) her third son Lenox Bussell her fourth son Charles Bussell her fifth son Joseph Vernon Bussell (d.1860) (known as Vernon Bussell) his wife Mary Elizabeth Bussell, née Phillips his son William John Bussell (1854–1936) (known as Archdeacon Bussell) her sixth son Alfred Bussell (1816–1882), explorer and MLC his wife Ellen Bussell (1833–1877) his daughter Grace Drake-Brockman (1860–1935) of SS Georgette shipwreck fame her children included: Edmund Drake-Brockman, Geoffrey Drake-Brockman and Deborah Hackett his son Jack Bussell (1865–1940) her first daughter Mary Bussell her second daughter Frances Louisa "Fanny" Bussell her third daughter Elizabeth Capel "Bessie" Bussell Notes References Shann, Edward O. G. (1926) Cattle Chosen. Oxford University Press, London. Republished in 1978 by University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, Western Australia. . Hardwick, Gil. (2003) Castle Dangerous: The Alfred Pickmore Bussell Estate, Margaret River, Western Australia. Hesperian Press, Perth, Western Australia. . Australian families Settlers of Western Australia People associated with massacres of Indigenous Australians