BASTARD ROBERT

Robert Bastard appears in Domesday Book to have had large grants in the county of Devon, and thenceforward his descendants have remained seated in that shire, where they intermarried with the heiresses of Crispin and of Killiowe, in the county of Cornwall, and into the families of Fitz-Stephen, Besilles, Damarell, Gilbert, Reynell, Hele, and Bampfylde. Their seat, for many generations, was at Garston, near Kingsbridge, until, about the end of the seventeenth century, WILLIAM BASTARD, Esq., by marriage with the heiress of Pollexfen, acquired the estate of Kitley, which has since been the chief family residence.

--(This name appears on the Battle Abbey roll)