High Buston. By J. C. Hodgson. 837 



Cocidale Ward.*^ In 1663 Roger Buston owned lands valued at 

 £8 a-year. In 1680 Roger Buston of Upper Buston was buried 

 in woollen at Warkworth, and at the close of the 17th century 

 the entries of this surname in the "Warkworth Eegisters are 

 frequent. Not later than this period must be placed the branch- 

 ing of the only two out-sets of which we have any certain know- 

 ledge : one family farmed in the adjoining township of Shilbottle 

 Woodhouse/- to it possibly belonged John Buston of Embleton, 

 who in 1774 voted for lands in Stamford. 



The other branch became seated at Merrington and Ferryhill 

 CO. Durham, and there held lands at Butcher Race until about 

 1862. They seem to have been closely connected with the ill- 

 fated Brass family, the victims of the terrible tragedy of 1683, 

 recorded by Mr Surtees.^^ Of their descendants was the 

 scholarly Rev. R. Buston, Vicar of Roxton in Bedfordshire, and 

 Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, who erected in Merrington 



3' Arch. ^1. vol. II., p. 322, (Qaarto Series.) 



^' 1695, June 13. Cafchbert Buston and Isabella Garrett, both of 

 High Buston, married. Warkworth Registers. 



1697. Roger, son of Cuthbert Buston, of Woodhonae, bap. j Shilbottle 

 1701. John, son of Cuthbert Buston, of Woodhouse, bap. ( Reg. 

 1708. John, son of Cuthbert Buston, of Woodhouse, bap. — Lesbury Beg. 

 1719. Cuthbert Buston, of Woodhouse, bur. -\ 



1749. John Buston, of Woodhouse, bur. V Shilbottle Reg. 

 1769. Roger Buston, of Bilton, bur. — ) 



1771, 10 Sept. Phillis Gallimore died.— Family Bible. 



The Gallimores owned or occupied a small estate called Gallimore Hall, 

 in the township of Stamford, and now merged in Embleton South Farm : 

 possibly for it did John Buston vote in 1774. 



1750, Nov. 5. John Buston and Elizabeth Harvey, both of this parish. 



— Embleton Register of Marriages. 

 1808, Feb. 3. John Buston, farmer of Embleton, buried, aged 80 years. 



— Embleton Register of Burials, 

 And in the Churchwarden's book of Embleton parish, is the following 

 note. — " The following article is taken from the will of the late Mr John 

 Buston of Embleton, who died at Embleton on the 2nd day of February 

 1808. The pew in Embleton Church, which formerly belonged to Mr 

 Hervey, and which I have occupied near 57 years, I leave to my grandson 

 and his heirs, whenever they are resident in the parish of Embleton, at all 

 other times to be occupied by the present vicar of Embleton and his 

 successors. 



WM. JAMES, ) Executors to the late 



RALPH ANNETT, j" John Buston." 



" Surtees' Durham, vol. ui., p. 280. 



