More recently, the town appeared as the setting for the thriller novel Aztec Love Song (Weathervane Press 2009, ISBN 978-0-9562193-2-9) by Marty Ross, a Scottish author best known for his BBC radio plays who grew up in the town and studied at Mearns Castle High School.
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It then passed to the Maxwells of Nether Pollok in 1648 and then the Stewarts of Blackhall in 1660.
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Until the 1780s Busby village consisted of a scatter of cottages along a track leading from Carmunnock to Mearns.