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John BASTARD

John BASTARD

Male 1649 - Yes, date unknown    Has 363 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.


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  • Name John BASTARD 
    Relationshipwith Teresa Ann GOATHAM
    Baptised 24 Apr 1649  All Saints’ Church, West Alvington, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    • From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 29 Jan 2016)
      "[Aprill] 24 John the sone of william Bastard Esqr" - under heading 'Ano Dom 1649'
    Gender Male 
    Died Yes, date unknown 
    Siblings 9 brothers and 5 sisters 
    Patriarch & Matriarch
    John BASTARD,   d. Yes, date unknown  (5 x Great Grandfather) 
    Thomasine LANDERE,   b. Est 1530,   bur. Between 3 May 1594 and 3 May 1595, St. Eustachius’ Church, Tavistock, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 64 years)  (2 x Great Grandmother) 
    Notes 
    • (Research):A John Bastard was the Perpetual Vicar of Ashburton, instituted in 1681 and remaining until his death in 1720 (buried Ashburton 4 Aug 1720). Vivian shows him as this John but there is no entry for this John in either Alumni oxonienses or Alumni cantabrigienses. (Not all clergy had attended University but most had, and the CCEd website does show John the Vicar of Ashburton as MA). In  Alumni cantabrigienses there is, though, an entry for one John Bastard, son of Otho, born at Exeter, attending Cambridge and a note that he was probably the Vicar of Ashburton. This seems most likely to me.
    Person ID I20112  All
    Last Modified 4 Jun 2016 

    Father William BASTARD,   b. Abt 1616, Gerston, West Alvington, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location,   d. Feb 1663/64, Gerston, West Alvington, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 48 years) 
    Mother Johanna HELE,   b. 1618,   d. Jul 1669, South Pool, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location  (Age 51 years) 
    Married 21 Apr 1634  St. Nicholas’ and St. Cyriac’s Church, South Pool, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    • Now South Pool PRs only survive from 1664/5; Vivian cites the PRs, presumably in his day they did survive, giving the date of the marriage as 21 Apr 1635. Only about a quarter of the BTs survive and these do not include 1634 or 5.
      Fortunately a contempory record concerning the marriage does survive in a marriage settlement which is accompanied by various documents, mainly letters between William's great uncle William Bastard (to whom this younger William was heir) and Johanna's father Sampson.  
      Children
      An entry was slipped in in the PR amongst records of 1657 births, recording an Agnis daughter of William on 17 Oct 1657 - this William or another? Not looked thoroughly at what Williams there were at the same time, but a Joan buried in 1662 was shown as the daughter of William Bastard Glover; this could well be Agnis' father.

      Were there really two sons called Julius? Vivian shows 2, but only has a baptism for one, and I haven't found a second baptism either. So I'm not sure, though there clearly were 2 Juliuses. If they were brothers they must both have been living at the same time; not unknown at this time but not common. The will of the one for whom probate was granted in 1692 is said to have been brother of Walter; since this will appears not to survive we can't check this. Although there were several Bastard families in West Alvington at this time only the Garston clang were referred to as gentry etc. The 1665 burial of a Julius does describe him as 'gent' - I wonder if he could have been a young son of William, the son of William and Johane? On the other hand perhaps they did give the name to two sons, perhaps because the first was sickly and not expected to survive.
    Marriage Settlement 3 May 1634 
    • Catalogue entry shows the Marriage settlement was for the marriage of William Bastard to Johan Hele, for lands in Stockingham.
      The parties to the settlement were:

      1 William Bastard of Gerston, West Alvington, esq, Nicholas Gilferd of Bowringsleigh, esq and William Bastard of West North, Cornwall, esq

      and

      2 Sir Francis Glanville of Tavistock and Sampson Hele of Gnaton
    Family ID F7812  Family Group Page  |  Family Chart