Lydia Bastin

c1785-1854

Lydia was baptised on the 31^st July 1785, in Highclere, Hampshire, the daughter of Edward and Ann Bastin (nee May) who were married on the 5^th December 1772 in Highclere.

Her father Edward was baptised on the 10^th July 1747, in Highclere, the son of Edward and Elizabeth Bastin. He died aged 74 and was buried on the 28^th March 1824, in Highclere.

Her mother Ann was baptised on the 19^th May 1746 in Highclere, the daughter of Thomas John and Ann May. She died aged 75 and was buried on the 21^st November 1821, in Highclere.

Edward and Ann also had the following children baptised in Highclere:

Elizabeth, 1774

Susannah, 1776

John, 7^th December 1778

Bethiah, 5^th May 1781

Edward, 15^th November 1783

Blaney, 3^rd April 1787

Rebecca, 7^th July 1793

The 1851 census records Lydia (66) as a Servant, living with a Thomas Prior (74), in Raymond’s Almshouses, Newbury, Berkshire. (Surname recorded as Barton on ancestry)

Lydia died aged 69 in 1854. She was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 18^th May.

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