Col. John Craster

From A history of Northumberland Volume 2 The Parishes of Embleton, Ellingham, Howick, Long Houghton and Lesbury, by the Northumberland county history committee Published 1893 Page 174

Two of Edmund Craster's grandsons became distinguished military officers, and served at home and abroad in the wars of the seventeenth century. One of them, John Craster, became a colonel in the service of Gustavus Adolphus, and was killed at Lützen in 1632.

From History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club by Berwickshire Naturalists' Club Volume 37 Part 1 Published 1965 Page 138

In 1631 the southern half of Craster township, estimated at 400 acres, and known as Craster South Side or Craster South Farm, was sold off to Sir Matthew's eldest son, Thomas, who bought it for his second son, John Forster. Three out of John Craster's four sons were party to the sale, which at one stroke halved the Craster property and brought its boundary fence close up to the house. His second son, John, was away in Germany, fighting in the army of Gustavus Adolphus, perhaps as an officer in the old Scots Brigade. That regiment lost heavily at Lützen in the following year, and there is a family tradition that young John was killed in the battle.