340 High Buston. By J. C. Hodgson. 



head of Boulmer.**' In 1663 Mr Nicholas Whitehead owned 

 lands in Nether [Upper ?] Buston valued at £24 a-year {Book of 

 Rates. y^ In 1672 Nicholas Whitehead of Bowmer, 'armiger,' 



*" 1635. Thos. Burletson, vicar of Longhonghton, was ckarged with 

 ' drunknes,' before the High Commission Court at Durham, and was 

 subsequently suspended for 3 years : the information was laid by Henry 

 Whitehead, of Thorp (sic.) Bulmer, in the county of Northumberland, 

 gent. — Surtees' Society, 1857, p. 126. 



1660. Nicholas Whitehead of Boulmer was amongst the volunteers 

 present at the muster on Bokenfield Moor. — Proc. Soc. of AntiqxMries of 

 Newcastle, 1892, p. 163. 



1717. Mr Henry Whitehead and Mr Nicholas Whitehead, as occupiers 

 of the ' cole-pits ' on Denwick and Alnwick Moors, were indicted at the 

 Sessions for having the pits in an exposed and dangerous state. At the 

 Sessions of 5 April 1718, a justice having certified that the pits were very 

 well filled up, the Whiteheads were excused and exonerated from the fees, 

 which amounted to £1 10s. 8d. — Sessions Book, Society of Antiquaries, 

 Newcastle. 



1722. Henry Whitehead of Bowmer, and in 1748 Joshua Whitehead 

 of Bowmer, voted for freehold at Alemouth. — Poll Book. 



1741. Bond of Marriage of Thos. Porster of Alnwick, gent., and 

 Catherine Whitehead of same parish. — Raine's Testamenta. 



1757. Joshua Whitehead, of Bowmer, gent., granted or assigned to 

 John Archbold, of Acton, gent., and Jane his wife, (one of the daughters 

 of the said Joshua), a lease of premises in Longhoughton and Boulmer, 

 inchiding 50 acres formerly taken out of Longhougton Moor. — Alnwick 

 Castle MSS., and Report of Historical MS. Com. 1872, p. 109. 



1767. Joshua Whitehead, of High Espley, released to his only son and 

 heir apparent, Henry Whitehead, then a Lieut, of 1st Regiment Dragoon 

 Guards, in Capt. Henry Howard's Troop, in consideration for an annuity 

 to the Espley estate, and later in the same year, for a farther annuity, he 

 also released to his son his freehold at Alemouth. — Espley Abstract of 

 Title. 



1783, May. Henry Whitehead (his father having been for some years 

 dead) sold the Espley estate to Alex. Adams of Newcastle, in considera- 

 tion of £4:,600.— Espley Abstract. 



Capt. Henry Whitehead's eldest daughter, Elizabeth, married Henry 

 Butterworth, F.S.A., Queen's Law stationer and publisher, 7 Fleet Street, 

 London. She died 1853, leaving issue. — Memoir of Henry Butterworth, 

 Oen.tleman's Mafjazine, Feb. 1861. 



1820. An action— Butterworth v. Mat. Forster — was brought at the 

 Assizes to discover the paternal heirs of Thomas Forster of Alnwick (the 

 'Skecking Laird') who died in 1813: the plaintiffs were granddaughters 

 of Joshua Whitehead, of Boulmer, who was brother to Forster's mother. — 

 Newcastle Courant, 19th August 1820. 



*^ That is t — in value — of the whole township. 



