'Bustard1'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Bustard of Adderbury, Bustard of Metherex (Nether Exe)

                               
Visitation identifies the family's arms, quartered with those of Horne and Fabian, as "Argent, on a fess gules between three pellets as many bustards or, within a bordure engrailed azure".
Thomas Bustard of Metherex (Nether Exe), Devon
1. William Bustard of Metherex
  A. John Bustard of Adderbury, Oxfordshire (d 1534)
m. Elizabeth Fox (d 1517, dau of William Fox of Barford)
  i. Anthony Bustard of Adderbury (d 1568)
  m. Jane Horne (dau of John Horne of Saresden (Sarsden))
  a. William Bustard of Adderbury (by 1629)
  Visitation ends with this generation. This is probably the William, identified by VCH as the last to hold the leases of Adderbury, who married ...
  m. Catherine Colles (dau of Michael Colles of Hampton & Bradwell) wife of William, possibly mother of ...
  (1) Anne Bustard (d by 06.1669)
  m. Myles Blount of Orleton (d 27.11.1663)
  b. Elizabeth Bustard
m. Richard Hoby of Elmley
  c. Mary Bustard
  m. Thomas More (Mort) of Stapley
  d.+ other issue - John, Michael, Anne, Martha
  ii. Joan Bustard (d 07.05.1571)
  m. William Chauncey of Edgcote (b c1511, d 1585)
  iii. Julian Bustard
  m. Thomas Edson of Adderbury
  iv. Christian Bustard
  m1. Edward Willmot of Wytney (d 10.1558)
  m2. (sp) William Bury (d 1563)
  v. Anne Bustard
  m. Edward Fryers of Oxford
  vi. Elizabeth Bustard
  m1. Tristram Hopper of Masbury
  m2. John Lowman of Brokeland (d 03.04.1585)
  m2. Margaret (relict of William Pope)
2. Richard Bustard

Main source(s): Visitation (Oxfordshire, 1566+1574+1634, 'Bustard of Adderbury') with a little input/support from VCH ('Oxfordshire, vol 9, Bloxham Hundred, 'Parishes: Adderbury")
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