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BASTARD
- Bef 1747
Has 447 ancestors and 36 descendants in this family tree.
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Name BASTARD Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Gender Female Died Bef 1747 - Not mentioned in her husband's will so almost certainly predeceased him.
If, as I suspect, it was Bevill and ELizabeth's daughter Rose who married Thomas then between 1708 and 1747, as Thomas' father left her a bequest in his will, written in 1708.
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 1575/76 (Age ~ 65 years) (4 x Great Grandmother)Person ID I21657 All Last Modified 10 Apr 2024
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 Thomas ROSE, b. Abt 1680, d. 9 Jan 1747/48 (Age ~ 68 years) Married - Plaque in his memory notes that Mary was his only child.
In his will Thomas describes Sampson Bastard as his brother-in-law, Anna Soper as his neice and also leaves a bequest to Æneas Symons. Whilst Thomas and Sampson could be brothers-in-law in several ways, the description of Anna and mention of Æneas suggest that Thomas was married to a sister of Sampson, of Anna's mother Ann and of Æneas' mother Alice.
Thomas' wife could be a sister I don't know of or Rose, for whom I have neither a marriage nor a burial. Rose seems particularly likely as Thomas's father left her a bequest but did not leave one to any of her siblings. Rose was not married at the time, and is described as the daughter of Richard's brother-in-law Bevill. Richard effectively left her £200, a not inconsiderable sum (that was the amount Bevill owed Richard, and he charged him to pay her the money). I suspect the bequest was in anticipation of a marriage between his son Thomas and Bevill's daughter Rose.
** This Bastard wife was not necessarily the mother of Thomas' daughter Mary. **
(I have seen nothing to suggest Thomas married more than once, but nor can I rule it out)
Children + 1. Mary ROSE, b. Abt 1715, d. 7 Nov 1749 (Age ~ 34 years) ▻ Francis DREWE, Esqr. m. 21 Sep 1737Last Modified 10 Apr 2024 Family ID F8380 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- Not mentioned in her husband's will so almost certainly predeceased him.