There was quite a large contingent of Baston/Basson's in
Oxfordshire in the 1600 and 1700's and this line is centred on Bampton. It
is thought they were mainly farmers and farm labourers, the only references
are some early wills and marriage bonds in which they are referred to as
"Yeoman and husbandmen" and an old title deed dated 1769 which mentions
William Baston leased a small holding in the area and had given it up just
before he died in 1771 and it was being sold on and finally, an 1821
enclosure map that shows the "copyhold known as Bastons" in which the
location of the Baston house in Bampton is shown together with the land just
of the Buckland turnpike road.
The families other than my direct line need
proving, I have tried to sort out the various families using the data
contained in the various wills and deeds and matching that to the known
baptisms/marriages and deaths. There are various baptisms etc missing from
the records despite being mentioned in the wills and deeds. This could
either be in the early 1600's when the copying of the 1538 - 1613 paper
registers onto parchment was done as they were in a poor state or some of
the baptisms may have been at Clanfield and/or Shifford, where in both cases
all the early registers were destroyed by damp.
Individuals marked with a
red dot in the following pages are direct ancestors of Adam Luke John and
Jane Louisa Baston and with a magenta dot direct ancestors of Kealey Rose
Baston & Tyler Howard. Names with a "?" after them are either unknown or
unreadable. For privacy reasons, date of Birth, Marriage or Death for
persons still believed to be living are not shown.
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