Person:Robert Bastock (2)

Robert Bastock’s origins have yet to be established. The age given when he died suggests he was born around 1739. One possibility is that he was the Robert Bastock baptised at Chesterton in Warwickshire on 9th February 1740.

Robert’s first confirmed sighting is on 2nd February 1761, when he married Mary Butcher at the church of St Nicholas in Warwick. At the time of their marriage Robert was living at Bishop’s Tachbrook, about three miles south-east of Warwick.

Robert and Mary went on to have six children baptised in Warwick between 1762 and 1781, all baptised in the parish of St Nicholas there.

Mary died in 1805. Her burial record does not say how old she was, but she and Robert had been married for 44 years. Robert survived her by nearly twelve years. He was buried at St Nicholas’s Church in Warwick on 26th January 1817. He was said to be 77 years old. Immediately before his death he had been living on Coten End, the main road out of Warwick to the east.

1.   Church of England. Parish Church of Chesterton (Warwickshire), and Church of England. Parish Church of Kingston (Warwickshire). Parish registers, 1538-1982. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1968, 1984).

   1739
   Robert Bastock son of Ric[har]d was bap[tised] Feb[ruar]y 9 [i.e. 9 Feb 1739/40]

   Possible baptism: This baptism has been identified on the basis of the age at death and the fact that Robert named his eldest son Richard. Chesterton is also a neighbouring parish to Bishop’s Tachbrook where Robert was living at the time of his marriage.

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Burials register, in Church of England. Parish registers of St Nicholas, Warwick, 1539-1938. (Warwick: Warwickshire County Record Office).

   BURIALS in the Parish of St Nicholas Warwick in the County of Warwick, in the Year 1817
   No.	Name	Abode	When buried	Age	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   218	Robert Barstock	Cotton End St Nicholas	Jan[uar]y 26th	77 years [1739/40	Jo[h]n Burnyeat