Loiv Buston. By J. C. Hodgson. 513 



lands in Nether Buston, formerly belonging to his grandfather, 

 Henry Johnson (including the reversion of Strother's third) to 

 William Wilkinson of Upper Buston. The premises included 

 Pasture ground called the " Ten Pound Close," also " Joseph's 

 Close." 



The Wilkinsons were old established tenants or copyholders 

 in High Buston township ; but as their freehold lay in this 

 township, their history may be given here. At the Knights' 

 Court held at Alnwick Castle in 1638, John Wilkinson of Over 

 Buston was fined 6s. 8d. for two fold bursts. 1 In 1694, John 

 Wilkinson of High Buston was married at Wark worth Church, 

 to Mary Tayte of Newton-on-the-Moor : their eldest son William, 

 baptised the same year, was the purchaser of Johnson's land in 

 Low Buston: he married in 1732, Mary, daughter of Michael 

 Pemberton of Bainbridge Holme, county Durham, sister to Mrs 

 Richard Carr of West Ditchburn, and Mrs Michael Coulter of 

 Lesbury. 2 



William Wilkinson's will, proved in 1772 (Low Buston Papers) 

 mentions his son Henry, and his daughters Mary and Bridget ; 

 he leaves £30 a year to his widow, with a specific legacy, and 

 his land at Low Buston and houses at Warkworth, to his eldest 

 son William Wilkinson ; the latter in 1779 married Isabella 

 Robinson of Stannington, 3 by whom he had two sons, John and 

 Henry. He was buried at Warkworth in 1821 , aged 84. By his 

 will, dated 1815, he left his freehold and leasehold property to 

 his son John Wilkinson, who in 1832 sold his estate in Low 

 Buston, to his brother Henry Wilkinson, a corn factor in 

 Alnmouth, whose wife was .... Forster, sister to Win. Baird of 

 Windy Edge, Alnwick. In 1838, John Wilkinson sold it to 

 John Appleby of Low Buston. 



In 1728, Wm. Wilkinson borrowed £1500 on mortgage, from 

 Wm. Gallon of Alnwick, skinner and glover. In 1758, the 

 mortgage was held by Samuel Shield of Newcastle, and after- 

 wards by Katherine Shield — one of the three daughters and 

 co-heiresses. 4 



1 Tate's Alnwick, vol. I., p. 351. 



2 Burke Landed Gentry — Pemberton of Bainbridge Holm. 



3 Stannington Registers. 



* In 1770, she married Wm. Hargrave of Morpeth, afterwards of 

 Shawdon. — Low Buston Papers. 



