Perhaps from Banbury, Oxford. A carpenter who settled at Marlborough and had property there in 1657. Christopher Bannister's name appears in the colonial records of Marlborough. In 1663 he was on a list giving rates to pay for the minister . In property he had 16 acres of house lot, 4 acres upland, 8 acres of the first division of meadowland, 6.5 in the second division, and 8 rods of cedar swamp.