1Henry Baston 1538 Bampton, Oxfordshire
Burial Register, Oxfordshire Record Office, PAR16/1/R1/1. "
St Mary's Church,
Bampton 8th November 1538.
Henry Baston.". Image.
2Claywell Farm, Ducklington, Oxfordshire from
958 AD (A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 13: Bampton Hundred (Part
One), 'Ducklington: Introduction', pp. 110-118 (1996)), 958, P.N. Oxon.
(E.P.N.S.), ii. 317 - Victoria County History, Oxfordshire pages 110-118 fn29. "
Other Anglo-Saxon settlements within the ancient parish seem to have been
associated with woodland clearance. Eggesley in the north-west and Putlesley or
Puttesley probably near the centre of the parish were small hamlets in the early
Middle Ages, their names perhaps combining personal names with lea. (fn. 27)
There may also have been early settlement at Byrnan lea (? Beorna's lea, later
Barley) in the west, mentioned in 958. (fn. 28) Claywell was a hamlet in the
south-west of the parish, surviving as Claywell Farm. (fn. 29) In 1086 it was
Welde and later Weald, denoting woodland or cleared woodland, and was frequently
East Weald in distinction to Weald in Bampton; (fn. 30) the form Clayweld, in
use by the 15th century, (fn. 31) corrupted to Claywell. Hardwick in the
south-east of the parish was not part of the Ducklington estate of 958. (fn. 32)
Its name (heordewic), combining 'herd' with an element usually denoting a small
farm, (fn. 33) suggests that it was in origin a subsidiary pastoral settlement,
perhaps of Brighthampton (in Standlake) with which it was later linked
tenurially. (fn. 34).
In 1086 there were c. 50 recorded tenants on the
manors of Ducklington, Claywell, and Hardwick (fn. 35) and in 1279 over 75 named
tenants on those manors, not necessarily all resident. (fn. 36) In 1306 there
were 66 taxpayers in Ducklington and its hamlets, and in 1327 a similar number
(57 in Ducklington and Claywell, probably fewer than 20 in Hardwick). (fn. 37)
After mid 14th-century plagues the population may have been greatly reduced: in
1377 only 103 persons over 14 were assessed for poll tax, a figure which
probably excluded Hardwick, (fn. 38) and in the later Middle Ages several minor
settlements were deserted. In 1523-4 only 11 in Ducklington and 5 in Hardwick
paid subsidy, and the highest numbers assessed for 16th-century subsidies were
20 and 8 respectively in 1542-4; (fn. 39) a few other Ducklington parishioners
continued to live in Cokethorpe, discussed below.
Claywell was a much more
substantial settlement whose desertion in the later Middle Ages, though
apparently gradual, may have begun with a serious onslaught of plague, since
Yelford, a mile to the south-east, was largely abandoned in the same period.
(fn. 60) In 1086 there were 10 tenants on Theoderic's Claywell manor, some
probably at Aston; in addition there were presumably several Claywell tenants of
Ducklington manor. (fn. 61) In 1279 there were 9 such tenants, and 6 or 7 others
holding of Theoderic's successor, the abbot of Eynsham. (fn. 62) In 1306 and
1316 there were c. 14 and 17 taxpayers at Claywell, and an apparently similar
number in 1327 when Claywell was assessed with Ducklington. (fn. 63) In c. 1360
Eynsham abbey retained 6 Claywell holdings whose rents were sharply reduced
between 1403 (fn. 64) and the 1420s, when much was in hand. (fn. 65) Whether the
late 14th-century tenants lived at Claywell is uncertain, but it may be
significant that 'fishsilver', apparently payable by all the abbey's Claywell
tenants, was more than 25 years in arrears by 1407. (fn. 66) In 1430 Ducklington
manor's holdings at Claywell were let at only half their earlier rent because of
decays and shortage of tenants. (fn. 67) Later in the 15th century the abbey's
estate was let at will to one tenant; (fn. 68) he may have sublet to several
others, but from the 16th century the estate, usually described as Claywell
farm, seems to have been a single holding. (fn. 69) Ducklington manor's land in
Claywell was presumably worked from Ducklington.
From the later 16th
century baptisms consistently outnumbered burials, a rise in the period 1600-40
from roughly 9 baptisms and 4 burials a year to 13 and 7 respectively indicating
rapid population growth. In 1641 the Protestation oath was sworn by 150 men and
women in Ducklington, 73 in Hardwick. The 51 houses assessed for hearth tax in
Ducklington in 1662 included one in Claywell and some in Cokethorpe, while in
Hardwick fewer than a dozen houses and 25 hearths were assessed. In the 1690s,
the 1730s, and the 1790s there were roughly 13 baptisms and 9 burials a year,
and in 1801 there were 101 families in 82 houses, and the population was 442,
including 121 in Hardwick. Numbers increased steadily to a peak in 1871 of 629
(including 149 in Hardwick), falling to 540 in 1891 and 486 (97 in Hardwick) in
1931. Thereafter the population of the newly created Hardwick-with-Yelford was
fairly stable, falling to 85 in 1961 and rising to 112 in 1991."
fn 27
Below, this section.
fn 28 P.N. Oxon. (E.P.N.S.), ii. 317.
fn 29 Above,
this section.
fn 30 P.N. Oxon. (E.P.N.S.), ii. 317-18.
fn 31 Eynsham
Cart. ii, p. xix.
fn 32 Above, this section.
fn 33 P.N. Oxon.
(E.P.N.S.), ii. 324, 471.
fn 34 Below, manors.
fn 35 V.C.H. Oxon. i.
405, 414, 423, 425: the figure assumes that Hardwick may be part of Wadard's
Brighthampton estate.
fn 36 Bampton Hund. R. 59-64.
fn 37 P.R.O., E
179/161/9, 10.
fn 38 Ibid. E 179/161/42.
fn 39 Ibid. E 179/161/172; E
179/162/223-4.
fn 61 V.C.H. Oxon. i. 423; below, manors.
fn 62 Bampton
Hund. R. 61-2. To the abbey tenants should probably be added Emma Lovel,
recorded under Aston: ibid. 22; cf. Eynsham Cart. ii, pp. 12, 14.
fn 63
P.R.O., E 179/161/8-9. An incomplete assessment for 1306 is identifiable as
Claywell from surviving names: ibid. E 179/161/10, m. 21d.
fn 64 Eynsham
Cart. ii, pp. 12, 14; Bodl. MS. d.d. Harcourt c 128/1-4; B.L. Harl. Rolls K. 41,
L. 1, L. 3.
fn 65 P.R.O., SC 6/961/14; B.L. Harl. Roll L. 6.
fn 66
P.R.O., SC 6/961/13.
fn 67 Ibid. E 142/84, no. 6.
fn 68 Ibid. SC
6/961/15; B.L. Harl. Rolls L. 7, L. 10, G. 2; Bodl. MS. d.d. Harcourt c 128/6.
fn 69 e.g. P.R.O., C 1/1284/8; Bodl. MS. d.d. Harcourt c 109/6..
3Walter Baston and Claywell Farm, 1279
Ducklington, Oxfordshire, earliest record of the Baston family in Bampton.
(Bampton Hundred Roll of 1279 & The Victoria History of Oxfordshire Vol XIII),
1279, Oxfordshire Record Society Vol XLVI p62. "
In the year 1279,
Walter Baston holds one messuage and ½ yardland and 5 acres and renders 11s 3d a
year. This holding is identical to the Henry Bastone rental of 1360 which
reckons it as a ¾ yardland.
In 1272 there were 25 villein yardlands
worth £20 a year on Ducklington manor, and freehold rents of over £13. (fn. 44)
In 1279 the manor comprised over 40 yardlands, including land at Claywell,
Putlesley, Eggesley, and Cokethorpe. Some 19½ yardlands were held by 23
freeholders and 19 single yardlands and 4 half yardlands were held by villein's;
43 a. were held by 5 cotters, and 18 a. of 'foreland' (possibly assorted land,
worth 6d. an acre) was let to villein's. (fn. 45) On Eynsham abbey's Claywell
manor, which included a demesne yardland at Putlesley, there Were 4 villein
yardlanders, and 3 or 4 half-yardlanders who each held an additional 5 a. (fn.
46) Thus the fields of Ducklington contained some 50 yardlands, excluding 3
ploughlands of demesne and the glebe. In 1601 Ducklington was reckoned to
contain 60¾ yardlands, including 2 yardlands of glebe. (fn. 47) A yardland
containing only 20 a. seems to be implied in 1279, (fn. 48) but later
yardlands were larger: the glebe in 1601 comprised some 54 field acres, and in
1771 an estate which in 1587 was 1½ yardland comprised 66 field acres (46
statute acres). (fn. 49).
Excerpt from the Cartulary of Eynsham -
The hamlet of East Weld appears to have been within the parish of Ducklington.
It is true that at this day the only place of the name of Weld is to the
south-west of Bampton ; but in old days there were two places of this name, and
in the return of 1279 we have descriptions of Weld in Bampton and of East Weld
in Ducklington (Hundred Rolls, ii, pp. 688 and 700) ; also in the names of vills
drawn up in 1316 it is stated that East Weld was a hamlet in Ducklington (Feudal
Aids, vol. iv, p. 162), and the same statement is made in the Eynsham Cartulary
(vol. i, p. 376). In accordance with this there is a deed, preserved among the
miscellaneous deeds in the muniment room of New College, which mentions that the
road from the vill of Estweld to the wood called Weldehemho passed through
Yelford. Lastly, in the Shifford court rolls the property is often called Clay
Weld; and to this day there is a farm on the west side of Ducklington called
Claywell."
fn 44 Ibid. C 132/41, no. 5.
fn 45 Bampton Hund. R. 59-62
fn 46 Ibid. 61-2. Emma Lovel, recorded under Aston, should probably be
included: ibid. 22; cf. Eynsham Cart. ii, pp. 12, 14.
fn 47 O.R.O., MS. Oxf.
Archd. Oxon. b 40, f. 119.
fn 48 Bampton Hund. R. 12, 62, s.v. Baston.
(Oxfordshire Hundred Rolls, Bampton Hundred, Witney Borough), ed. E. Stone, P.
Hyde (O.R.S. xlvi) - reference to Walter Baston at Claywell Farm in 1279.
fn
49 O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Archd. Oxon. b 40, f. 119; ibid. Peake II/iii/1; II/iv/1,
details of 'old estate'.. Image.
4Walter Baston and Claywell Farm, 1279
Ducklington, Oxfordshire, Earliest record of the Baston family in Bampton.
(Original document), National Archives, Kew, ref: SC 5/Tower/1. "
The
original Bampton Hundred Roll for Claywell, Ducklington.
"Walter Baston holds
one messuage and ½ yardland and 5 acres and renders 11s 3d a year"."
Image.
5Richard Baston 1306 Claywell, Oxfordshire
Land Tax Record, 30 May 1306, National Archives, Kew, E179/161/10 Rot 21d. "
Claywell, Bampton Hundred 30th May 1306.
de Rias. Baston j??? (Rias is
shortened Latin for Richard).
Total collected for Ville de Claywell 28s 2d."
This rotulet has its heading missing but by the order of the entries, the
top right hand of this page is for Claywell (ie; above Hardwick & Ducklington as
per other rotulii)
This Oxfordshire document clearly relates to the
thirtieth and twentieth to knight the king's eldest son granted to Edward I in
1306. The heading is missing, but the assessments for each community are
totalled as either twentieths or thirtieths. Although much of this document is
damaged or missing, what remains is generally in fine condition. Presumably
this undated document was produced between the date at which commissioners were
appointed to levy the tax, and the date at which the first collection was due.
Damaged sections from the heads of many of the rotulets of this roll are now at
E 179/364/12 Part 7. However, unfortunately it is unclear as to which rotulet
each fragment belongs. Date Of Document 1306 July 22 x 1307 Feb 3.
Image.
6Richard Baston 1316 Claywell, Oxfordshire
Land Tax Record, 5 Aug 1316, National Archives, Kew, E179/161/8 Rot 5m 2d. "
Claywelde, Bampton Hundred 5th August 1316.
de Rias. Baston vijs (7
shillings), (Rias is shortened Latin for Richard and he is the highest tax payer
in Claywelde at this time).
Total sum collected for Claywelde 52s."
This Oxfordshire document is explicitly an individual assessment for the
sixteenth granted to Edward II (together with a fifteenth) in 1316. No
assessments of wealth are given, only tax charges; nor is there any mention of a
particular collection. Presumably, therefore, this undated document gives
assessments for the entire tax, and was produced before the date of the first
collection.
Grants, sixteenth and fifteenth, 1316 Feb 20 - Aug 5. Date Of
Document 1316 Nov 3 or earlier. Image.
7Richard Baston 1327 Ducklington, Oxfordshire
Land Tax Record, 15 Sep 1327, National Archives, Kew, E179/161/9 rot 4. "
Ville de Ducklington, Bampton Hundred 15th September 1327.
de Rias. Baston v
s (5 shillings), (Rias is shortened Latin for Richard).
Sum collected 102s
6d.
(Richard is the third highest tax payer at 5s)."
This Oxfordshire
document is explicitly an individual assessment for the twentieth granted to
Edward III in 1327. Given the delivery date entered on rot 14d for October 1329,
it clearly covers all three collections. Image.
8Henry Bastone 1360 Claywell Farm,
Ducklington, Oxfordshire (Eynsham Cartulary, Vol LI of the Abbey of Eynsham),
1360, Bastone, Henricus, II. 12, 14. "
12 Cartulary of Eynsham - Welde.
fol. 7. Johannes atte Hache tenet duo messuagia & duas virgatas terre
reddendo ut patebit; non operabitur; faciet sectam curiarum, dabit
ii
herieta ; non maritabit filium &c., non vendet bouem &c.
Idem Robertus
tenet vnum messuagium cum dimidia virgata terre
reddendo & faciendo vt
supra.
Johannes atte Bury tenet unum mesuagium cum una virgata terre ;
reddet & faciet, sicut predictus Johannes atte Hache faciet pro una
virgata
terre.
Robertus Aleyn tenet vnum mesuagium cum dimidia virgata terre ;
reddet & faciet in omnibus, sicut predictus Johannes atte Hache faciet
pro
vna virgata terre.
Henricus Bastone tenet unum messuagium cum tribus
partibus unus
virgata terra pro redditu vt supra, & alia faciet sicut
predictus Johannes
Attehache.
Henricus Bastone xi s. iiii d. (11s
4d).
Rough translation - Henry Baston holds a building together with a
third part of the strip land and other buildings in the same way as the
aforementioned Johannes atte Hache.
In the Shifford court rolls the
property is often called Clay Weld; and to this day there is a farm on the west
side of Ducklington called Claywell."
9Henry Baston, 1377 Poll Tax Record,
Ducklington, Oxfordshire, National Archives, Kew, Ext 6/99/6d c1 (Formerly E
179/240/308 part 2). "
Ducklington, Bampton Hundred, 27 May 1377.
Henricus
Baston 4d.
(Transcript with original document insert)."
This piece
comprises a total of 164 membranes, relating to a variety of taxes. For ease of
reference it has been divided into a number of parts, each of which relates to a
particular tax grant. However, the original numbering scheme has been preserved
in the index, and hence the membrane numbers used relate to the membrane's
position in the piece as a whole, not its position within its particular part.
The membranes remain arranged in simple numerical order (1-164) within the box.
Due to its size, this entire box was re-classified as EXT 6/99 on 26 October
1994, and all parts of this piece now need to be ordered under that reference.
Part 2: This part of the piece consists of a bundle of fifty-six membranes
containing fragments of assessments of individuals for the poll tax granted to
Richard II in 1379, for various counties. Some of these fragments have suffered
damage; parts are missing and parts have been obliterated by damp or
discolouration and are not easy to read. However, these documents have been
identified by Carolyn Fenwick and have been published by her. Several of the
membranes in the present piece are duplicates of documents in the main county
series; some details have been entered here, but full details are to be found in
the published edition of the documents. The membranes are as follows (only the
first of consecutive unidentifed membranes has been indexed):
m 6: This
is a fragment of an assessment for places in Bampton hundred, Oxfordshire. The
document is laid out in two columns on both face and dorse and has been indexed
in order of columns, left-hand column followed by right-hand column. The last
place-name to appear is Aston, identified by Carolyn Fenwich as Aston Bampton,
presumably for Aston hamlet in Bampton parish.
See page 324 for a
transcript of Aston extracted from "The Poll Taxes 1377, 1379 & 1381, Part 2",
by Dr Carolyn C Fenwick, published by Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN
0-19-726228-7. Image.
10Henry Baston 1378, Soldier (AHRC-funded
database www.medievalsoldier.org), National Archives, Kew, TNA E101/40/45 m.1. "
A Henry Baston was recruited by a local Berkshire & Oxfordshire landowner, Sir
Richard Abberbury to join him in Brest, France.
(The only Baston family in
Oxfordshire or Berkshire at the time, were the Baston's of
Ducklington/Bampton)."
Sir Richard Abberbury (1331-1399).
Richard was the son of Thomas Abberbury (or Adderbury), a younger son from a
prominent Berkshire and Oxfordshire family. When he was fifteen, his father
unexpectedly inherited the family estates, centred on Donnington in Berkshire
and Steeple Aston in Oxfordshire, from Richard’s cousin, Sir John Abberbury,
when he was killed at the Siege of Calais. So, when Thomas died in 1353, his son
became an extremely wealthy man. Around the same time, he married Agnes, the
daughter of Chief Justice Sir William Shareshull.
Richard’s career began
as a military one, serving with Henry of Grosmont, Duke of Lancaster in Brittany
and Normandy in 1356. However, after the Treaty of Bretigny, he soon transferred
to the retinue of the Black Prince, his feudal overlord, who knighted him by
1359. In that year, he accompanied the Prince to Gascony and he fought alongside
him throughout the Najera campaign seven years later. For his valiant service,
he was given an annuity of £40 in return for his military support during times
of war. He thus appeared at the Northampton muster of 1368 with four esquires
and ten archers and served in Gascony the following year, remaining as Seneschal
of Limousin upon Prince Edward's return to England in 1371. Subsequently, he was
placed in charge of a force of 39 men-at-arms and 40 archers and was put to sea
for five months in the Spring and Summer of 1374.
After the death of the
Black Prince in 1376, Sir Richard continued to serve his widow, the Fair Maid of
Kent, and her son, the future King Richard II. He became the boy’s 'master',
responsible for his safety and upbringing, and was so concerned for his
immediate welfare that, within a month, he had sold two of his own Sussex manors
in order to prop-up the boy’s estate. He was only to be recompensed for this
selfless act many years later. The prince’s accession to the throne seems to
have little altered Abberbury’s position at court. In 1377, he negotiated a
reconciliation between Prince John of Gaunt and the citizens of London and,
presumably as a reward, he was granted life custody of Dartmoor Forest soon
afterward. At the end of the same year, he was commissioned to make an inventory
of the late Edward III’s jewels and other valuables, with powers to seize any
found to be in the possession of others, notably from Alice Perrers, the King’s
former mistress.
In 1378, Sir Richard became joint Captain of Brest Castle
in Brittany, along with his neighbour, Sir John Golafre. They sailed from
England with a company of 140 men in the 'Alice', a ship which the King had
given to Abberbury, and remained at their post of almost a year. Sir Richard
then returned to England briefly in the Summer before accompanying John de
Montfort, the Duke of Brittany, back to his duchy to negotiate the terms of an
Anglo-Breton alliance. Following this experience, Sir Richard now became a
trusted Royal diplomat. He was sent to Bruges in 1380 to negotiate King
Richard’s marriage to Anne of Bohemia with the representatives of her brother,
Wenzel IV, King of the Romans. Sir Richard extended the trip by travelling to
Germany for a personal audience with the King, staying abroad for some three
months. After the marriage, Abberbury was a natural choice to become attached to
the new Queen’s household and he was appointed chamberlain soon after her
Coronation in 1382. He served her well for the next four years, and she rewarded
him in 1383 with a life-grant of the manors of Iffley in Oxfordshire and
Carswell, at Buckland, in Berkshire. These were later given to him outright by
the King in compensation for Sir Richard having earlier sold his Sussex estates
for his patron's upkeep when still a child. His trusted position in the Kings
inner circle is further indicated by his acting as both a trustee for the
estates of the King’s disgraced half-brother, Sir John Holland, and executor of
the will of the King’s mother, the Fair Maid of Kent. In 1386, Sir Richard was
even given permission to turn his manor at Donnington into a fortified castle.
(Sir Richard Abberbury source - www.berkshirehistory.com).
Image.
11Henry Baston, 1524, Aston, Bampton
Hundred, Oxfordshire, Tax Record, 16 Apr 1524, National Archives, Kew,
E179/161/172 rot 2. "
Aston, Bampton Hundred, Oxfordshire, 16th Apr 1524.
Henry Baston in land £10, subsidy 12s.
Sum for Aston £37."
This
Oxfordshire document is a certificate of assessment and individual assessment
for the first collection in the hundred of Bampton for the subsidy granted to
Henry VIII in 1523. The certificate is dated; judging by its date, it
represents a product of the second attempt to collect the sums due under this
subsidy: note that the assessments here are substantially the same as those in
the roll for the first attempt (see notes for this grant, and cf. E
179/161/173). One rotulet is missing from this roll. A damaged fragment from
this is currently at E 179/162/268 Part 4, but part is still missing, probably
destroyed.
Date Of Document 1524 April 16. Grants, subsidy, 1523 May 21,
1st: 1524 Feb 9.
Parliament opened on 15 April 1523. On 21 May it granted
an annual subsidy for four years, to be assessed each year between 29 September
and 11 November, and paid the following 9 February. It was hoped to raise a
total sum of £800,000, although no mention of this amount was included in the
text of the parliamentary act.
For the first two years, land was assessed
at 12d. in the pound, and moveable goods at the rate of 12d in the pound for
those with over £20 of goods, and 6d in the pound for those with 40s.-£20 of
goods. Persons who were paid annual wages of over 20s. were charged with 4d.
annually, although in practice many commissioners assessed such wage earners to
pay 6d. Aliens paid a double tax of 8d. on their wages, if they received any,
and if they did not, they were required to pay a poll tax of 8d. Henry VIII was
in a hurry to obtain the money to fund campaigns in France and demanded that the
wealthier taxpayers make loans, known as ‘anticipations’, of the first payment
by 11 November 1523. Image.
12Claywell Farm, Ducklington, Oxfordshire in
1544 (From: 'Ducklington: Manors', A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 13:
Bampton Hundred (Part One) (1996), pp. 118-127). "
Eynsham Abbey retained
EAST WEALD, later CLAYWELL, manor until the Dissolution, administering it in the
later Middle Ages, when it was perhaps reduced to a single farm, with Shifford
manor (in Bampton). (fn. 18) It passed with Shifford to Sir George Darcey in
1539, to Sir Edward North in 1543, to the Stanleys, earls of Derby, in 1545, and
was purchased in 1600 by Joseph Mayne of Creslow (Bucks.). (fn. 19) From 1544
Claywell was sublet by Sir Edward North to Leonard Yate of Witney, clothier,
(fn. 20) and Yates of Witney were still suitors of Shifford court for land in
Claywell, not necessarily the farm estate, in the 1570s. (fn. 21) In 1610
Claywell farm, reckoned as 5 yardlands, was held, on a long lease of unknown
date, by Thomas North, (fn. 22) but in that year Joseph Mayne sold the freehold,
along with his Shifford estate, to Sir David Williams and Edward Yate of
Buckland (formerly Berks.)."
fn 19 Bodl. MS. d.d. Harcourt c 109/1-3;
above, Bampton: Shifford, manor.
fn 20 P.R.O., C 1/1284/8.
fn 21 Bodl.
MS. d.d. Harcourt c 127/8, ff. 22v., 30v., 31v.
fn 22 Ibid. c 109/6: the
name may be a scribal error for Thomas Lord, who was of Claywell at his death in
1631: C.O.S., par. reg. transcripts
fn 90 (Rents in 1601). O.R.O., MS. Oxf.
Archd. Oxon. b 40, f. 119; O.R.O., MS. d.d. Par. Duckl. b 7, passim; above,
intro..
13Claywell Farm, Ducklington, Oxfordshire
and Bampton (Ordnance Survey 1884), 1884. "
Claywell Farm location in
relation to Bampton and Aston, Oxfordshire
as mentioned in the 1279 Hundred
Rolls of Bampton." Image.
14Claywell Farm, Ducklington, Oxfordshire,
detailed location, 1838. "
1838 map showing detailed location with respect to
Ducklington." Image.
15Kings & Queens of England since 1066. "
Kings & Queens of England from 1066." Image.
16Coat of Arms - Baston, English Origin (1),
Baston surname. "
Baston Family Coat of Arms (from Burke's General Armory) -
English Origin.
BASTON Shield: Quarterly per fesse indented or and az (Gold &
Blue).
BASTON Crest:
BASTON Motto: None.
The Baston family name
originated in Poitou, France and the surname traces its ancestral roots back to
French origin."
There is also a Baston Arms of Cornish origin depicting 3
bats on a Silver background. Image.
17Coat of Arms - Baston, French Origin,
Baston surname. "
French Origin (Bretagne).
BASTON Shield: Or, a chevron
gules, two trefoils in chief, a rose vert in base..
BASTON Crest: None.
BASTON Motto: None.
The French Baston family name originated in Poitou,
located in France and the family trace their ancestral roots back to French
origin."
Note: houseofnames.com has a different emblem for Baston of
French origin, further research shows that the one shown on their website is in
fact for the surname Bastie (Blue & silver with roses)..
Image.
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