 William Roome, (master of the vessel "Olivia" on which Thomas Baines arrived at Cape Town on 23 November 1842) and Catherine Cecelia Bushnell (who was born in Virginia USA - her father, also a sea captain apparently settled in Nova Scotia).James and Catherine had four children.One of their sons, William James Bushnell Chapman (1858–1932) became a trader, hunter and farmer.