Almost a year later, Eleanor Slade married John Bushnell, of Beenham (between Newbury and Reading).  The Bushnells had some degree of importance to the Slades.  Mary Slade (1756-1820), a sister of John Slade, the prolific father, had married one William Bushnell (1749-1822) in 1777.  William Bushnell gave his residence as Aston Upthorpe.  These two reappear at the end of their lives, for they receive burial in the village (albeit in the register of St Michael, the Tirrold church, rather than Upthorpe).  Mary died first and William, dying after two years, chose to lie beside her.  In the register his residence appears as Woolhampton, a village only a short distance from Beenham.  We can therefore assume that the two Bushnells have a connection.  Bushnell appears once more, but shortly, in the Slade tree.  The third son of Henry and Charlotte Slade carries that name in his, William Bushnell Slade (1819-1820).  John Bushnell Senior it seems had apparently engaged in mentally taxing activities during his life, since these had caused him to become childishly senile by the 1840s.  Charlotte Slade, while encouraging Henry to write letters from Australia, urges caution against overdoing it, unless he wants to become like Uncle John.  Eleanor and John Bushnell had at least one son, also called John.  We find him qualifying to become a curate attached to Moreton-in-the-Marsh.  Charlotte mentions seeing his appointment listed in the paper during the summer of 1840.  John Junior had written expressing sympathy after the death of Deborah Slade, earlier in the year.