Marnhull, St Gregory, Part II, 'The Bastable Family Connection' by Sheila - An Audio Pod Video, 2023
Channel: semw52
Date: 2023-05-02

I will be returning to update this description as more research  develops and family tree links expand to reveal more connections of the people and their lives..Burial records do of course allow a detailed examination of surnames and the Bastables are definately a part of the Marnhull community.Back in time people rarely ventured far from their county, their local village and community.Marriage often allowed  geographic movement when a man and woman of different villages would meet at the market or a barn dance  and then after marriage one of the pair would go to live in the other's village.Sometimes people would be returned to their village of origin if they became a financial burden, a liability and had fallen on hard times .There were workhouse for paupers and the very poor and I have found  documental evidence of such resettlement cases with a Bastable family of Stour Provost who were moved to Shaftesbury St James......
At Marnhull there are several Bastable graves still visible such as William Frederick Bastable who died in 1951 aged 80 and his wife Elizabeth  1955 aged 83--also Cecil and Laura Bastable, Herbert George Bastable  d1902 aged 56 and wife Mary Jane 1920 aged 74; Edwin Fredericl Bastable d.May 5th 1920 and wife Rhoda jane d. May 13th 1931 AND ELIJA Bastable d. March 23rd 1867 aged 70 and wife Jane d. January 28th 1889 aged 88...And others not all with visible graves now........So the Bastable family have  strong links in Marnhull over centuries.The same with other associated names like the PLOWMAN and HATCHER families...There is The Book of Remembrance with George Bastable with a picture KIA 1917 WW1...
Just a reminder that Dorset was Thomas Hardy Country and County and Marnhull is mentioned in his work and in the  novel 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' called the village Marlott and the Crown Inn 'The Pure Drop Inn'.......I will update this description and all others as I consolidate the research and more discoveries are found...The family Tree is a  vast network and a web of interrelationships which like a complicated knitting pattern can take time to undo.With DNA now very prominent in  our family tree discoveries, the building blocks of our families and communities can be explored way back in time..My 2 granddaughters for example, Daisy & Amber, who are connected to Bastables on their Paternal grandmother side ,Sandy Merefield, also carry my DNA on my side--their Maternal grandmother and  especially share my Mitrochondrial  DNA which goes back a good 30,000 years.This part of the DNA is passed on from Mother to Daughter who can also pass it on  but sons although they receive this DNA cannot pass on the Mitrochondrial DNA as far as we know at the moment.....
So folks although the early tape recordings  were very basic---not the BBC--they are still a record in time -------most of my work  since 2009 was using a video camera --so these early audio are few but depict the early stages in my foot work research.......