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Mrs Ann BASTARD
Est 1686 - Aft 1717 (~ 32 years)
Has 454 ancestors and 5 descendants in this family tree.
Set As Default Person 
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Name Ann BASTARD Prefix Mrs Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born Est 1686 - Date an estimate from date of marriage.
** At present I have no definite evidence that Ann was the daughter of Bevill and Elizabeth. **
It seems highly probable because:
* she married in Churchstow, and Bevill's family seem to be the only BASTARD family in the parish at that time;
* she was described as Mrs (and her husband as Mr) indicating the gentry status that is consistent with Bevill's family (but not with many Bastards in neighbouring parishes who might have moved into or been in service in the parish)
* the date means if born Churchstow she would have been baptised during the period for which no PRs and few BTs survive
* the gap between the dobs of Bevill and Elizabeth's known children suggests they had had more (and references to Elizabeth point to Bevill having been married to the same Elizabeth throughout, i.e. not a gap due to being a widower for part of the period)
* six years after Ann's marriage her husband, despite being of Plymouth, became lessee of Norton, Churchstow which was in the tenure of Bevill, suggesting an ongoing link (DHC ref: 123M/L621)
* one of Ann's sons was given the name Bevill and a daughter Rose, unusual names but the names of the father and a sister (and mother's maiden name) of the Anne I believe she was
Gender Female Died Aft 1717 Siblings1 brother and 4 sisters Patriarch & Matriarch 
John BASTARD, d. Yes, date unknown (6 x Great Grandfather)
Ursula BRYDGES, b. Est 1510, d. Between 26 Oct 1575 and 4 Feb 1576 (Age ~ 65 years) (4 x Great Grandmother)Person ID I21612 All Last Modified 22 Aug 2017
Father Bevill BASTARD, b. Abt 1646, Gerston, West Alvington, Devon, England 
, d. Jun 1720, Churchstow, Devon, England (Age ~ 74 years) Mother Mrs. Elizabeth ROSE, [Mother?], b. Between 1646 and 1655, d. Oct 1725, Churchstow, Devon, England (Age ~ 79 years) Married Est 1674 - I suspect Bevill and Elizabeth married in about 1674. On 19 October that year Bevill, his brother William and Elizabeth were the 3 lives on a lease of land in Churchstow, as described in a draft licence to assign the lease after Bevill's death (catalogue entry). These arrangements were often made in preparation for marriage, and the lack of a child of Bevill and Elizabeth as one of the lives suggests this was one such.
Although the earliest surviving Churchstow PR dates from 1543, there is a large gap in the C17th, from 1653 or 4 to 1694 for baptisms and marriages. At first when I could not find their marriage I thought that Bevill had probably married 'Elizabeth' in Churchstow and that gap in the PRs explained the lack of a record. Now knowing she was from Dorset, and a bit about the family, the most likely marriage place would be Wootton Fitzpaine. The marriage PRs there only survive from 1677 and BTs from 1731, so if they were married there the only hope of evidence is a marriage licence.
Churchstow missing years probably include the baptisms of most of the children of Bevill and Elizabeth. I have looked at the surviving BTs but these cover only 5 of the missing years and neither their marriage nor a child's baptism is in those few surviving BTs.
The lack of children named in a lease of 1682 suggests that any children born by then had not survived, or maybe were so young that the period of high mortality had not passed (I'm not sure if people took this into account when choosing the lives for leases),
I have identified 5 children from this marriage, a son baptized in 1696, i.e. in the period for which the PRs do survive and 4 daughters, two named in a lease some 12 years earlier, the third left a bequest by her mother's brother Richard in a will written in 1708 and the 4th, Ann, from a combination of events. It seems highly likely that other children were born in the intervening years. One or two burials in Churchstow could be children of Bevill and Elizabeth (a William Bastard was buried 18 Aug 1698, Sarah 29 May 1699).
Although I appear to show a 6th child, without a Christian name, she could be one of the children I do know of.
Family ID F7836 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family Mr John SOPER, bur. 25 Jul 1717, St. Andrew’s Church, Plymouth, Devon, England
Other Partners: Miriam WINSON m. 24 Nov 1697Married 13 Apr 1708 St. Mary’s Church, Churchstow, Devon, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 25 May 2016)
"Mr John Soper of St Andrews in Plimouth & Mrs Ann Bastard of this psh were married April the 13th" - under heading 'the year 1708'
Children5 children Last Modified 29 May 2016 Family ID F8546 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- Date an estimate from date of marriage.
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Married - 13 Apr 1708 - St. Mary’s Church, Churchstow, Devon, England 
Child - Thomas SOPER - 15 Jun 1709 - St. Andrew’s Church, Plymouth, Devon, England Child - Anna SOPER - 6 May 1711 - St. Andrew’s Church, Plymouth, Devon, England Child - Bevill SOPER - 17 Jun 1713 - St. Andrew’s Church, Plymouth, Devon, England Child - William SOPER - 4 Jan 1714/15 - St. Andrew’s Church, Plymouth, Devon, England Child - Rose SOPER - 29 Oct 1716 - St. Andrew’s Church, Plymouth, Devon, England = Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install) Pin Legend 
