Morton Buston

[danielr]

Oh wow, you are absolutely incredible! Thank you so so much for the image Softly Softly.

Thank you for the extra information Neale! This all helps a lot with a bump in the road. Will definitely write into GRO and go down to my bank to see what's going on 

Again, thank you all so much! This has been a fantastic help and I am incredibly grateful!

[KGarrad]

To register with GRO, you need to do it online.
Go to https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/

Or go straight to the Registration page:
https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/register.asp?UserType=Individual

[Spelk]

Unless you have the name "Morton" in your family as a given name or a surname then if is highly likely that the father of your Morton BUSTON had the surname MORTON. Using FindMyPast I see that there were a few families with that surname near Spennymoor in 1891.
To be get evidence of which family had a man or lad who fathered Morton BUSTON you should consider getting a DNA test.
As you may know it was not uncommon for miners families to have a female servant. This occurred mostly where a family had several sons working down the mine but no daughters to help with all the washing, cleaning and cooking. So 9 months before MB was born his mother may have been working as a servant in some village a few miles from Spennymoor such as Coundon or Brandon.

[danielr]

Unless you have the name "Morton" in your family as a given name or a surname then if is highly likely that the father of your Morton BUSTON had the surname MORTON. Using FindMyPast I see that there were a few families with that surname near Spennymoor in 1891.
To be get evidence of which family had a man or lad who fathered Morton BUSTON you should consider getting a DNA test.
As you may know it was not uncommon for miners families to have a female servant. This occurred mostly where a family had several sons working down the mine but no daughters to help with all the washing, cleaning and cooking. So 9 months before MB was born his mother may have been working as a servant in some village a few miles from Spennymoor such as Coundon or Brandon.

Great suggestion! Someone in the family got a test kit one Christmas - might be a reason to use it!

[fiddlerslass]

There's an earlier Morton Buston

Births Jun 1877   
BUSTON    Morton Haddon        Auckland    10a   240     mother's maiden name Snaith

This child died aged 1

Deaths Sep 1878   
Buston    Morton Haddon    1    Auckland    10a   107


So perhaps Morton is a family name after all.

[Spelk]

That was well spotted Fiddlerslass. So means finding out through DNA the father of Morton BUSTON could be trickier.
The chances of solving the matter will be better if a DNA record can be got from the child of his who is still living. Failing that then a grandchild.
I tried to find a MORTON in the ancestors of Morton BUSTON’s mother but failed. Come to that I could not find a VASEY either. Not helped by SNAITH being transcribed as SMITH of SNATH and BUSTON being BURTON sometimes.

[fiddlerslass]

There are 2 John Bustons born around 1834, one at Witton le wear son of Thomas and the other is son of George and Ann Adamson who married 1827 . I think John son of George is the correct one. They are at Tudhoe in 1841. George was born Witton le Wear and his wife was born Whitworth according to the 1851 census. They seem to stay in the Tudhoe/Spennymoor area . John is away from home and an apprentice in 1851.

The ancestry hints system has muddled the 2 families!