b: 8 Dec 1854
bp: 28 January 1855, Old Church, St Pancras, London
Parents: John Richard Bustin & Ann Bustin (nee Smith)

 * 1854: Prime Minister, the Earl of Aberdeen (Tory), led Britain into the Crimean War against Russia
* 1854: Elisha Otis demonstrates his new invention, the lift, at the New York World Fair, launching the skyscraper age

d: ?
occ: Stationers Warehouseman
(? Spaldings of London)
 

(* John was very close to his younger sister, Annie Amelia, and her daughter, his niece, Annie Elizabeth Preece knew him has "Uncle Jack". She remembered him as "a gentleman's gentleman". John spent some time in   France in the mid 1870s.)

* Additional information kindly  supplied by Faye Sutherland of Australia.

Known Siblings: (all born London)
* Sarah Anne (1850); Mary (1852); William Henry (1857); Emily (1860); Annie (1862)


2nd m: SeptQ 1885, St Pancras  

(He 31, She 17)
     * 1885: Louis Pasteur successfully vaccinates against rabies

Sp: Annie Maria HUTCHINS

Children:
* Annie A. Bustin (b.1886, St Pancras, London)
* Ethel Ellen BUSTIN (b. 11 Aug 1888, St Pancras, London)


1st m: 30 Nov 1879, St Andrews Church, Malden Rd, Haverstock Hill, London
Sp: Fanny Eliza Hannah KINGSNORTH
(daughter of Thos. Wm. Kingsnorth, Civil Engineer)
* (No known offspring)