CATHY - URGENT - CANNOT CONTACT YOU
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Re: Charles Reuben Baster
Jean C Noble 1/16/05
I have been trying to email you but they keep coming back. My emails are being treated as SPAM, I think, by your host. Can you get back to me about this.
This is the email I tried to send:
Hello Cathy
Thanks for getting back to me. I should think that all the records you mention which list the Baster as a family - came originally from me. I have sent details around the family on several occasions and someone asked if the could list the names and dates and I agreed. The full family details are available to anyone who wants a file. Several years ago Marjory Hooper (another Baster descendant) and I pooled our information and have always agreed that the details of the Basters should be freely available. I had not anticipated that all the Baster and descendants details would be added and had to ask for some notes to be deleted because I felt they were personal to particular lines in the family. It would also be nice to be acknowledged as the originator of the information since most of it has been collected by Marjory and I and collated as well as keeping in touch with various Baster descendants.
Originally I had the family going back to the beginning of the 18th century but have progressed a little further in recent years taking it back another couple of generation from mentions in Berkshire wills.
The person you are researching for is welcome to have a file for the Basters which gives additional notes including additions made in the last couple of years. The internet version is now out of date.
Now - to stop complaining and get down to the information you have sent.
Thanks so much for the additional details about the Bull connection. I had Edith as Ann Stanbury's child. Charles George Baster was in the navy - and you know what sailors are - so the saying goes. The Charles Baster you mention, who married in 1870 (just Charles and not Charles George) does fit into the family as well but for another line.
If Mary Ann Ursula (Bull) Baster contracted puerperal fever and it is possible she never left 'childbed' but died from this. A Hungarian doctor, Ignatius Semelweiss, discovered the connection was being passed between women who had just given birth. (I read a wonderful book about him years ago. Fascinating reading. He died from the same infection after cutting his finger in his laboratory.) Of course only the death certificate would reveal the cause - I doubt the burial register would give anything other than the brief details given by the husband. Her GRO reference is Dec qtr 1874 Portsea 2b 291 as Mary Ann U Baster.
I cannot help you with asylums or details after WW1.
I searched the WW1 Medals on http://www.documentsonline.nationalarchives.gov.uk/http://www.documentsonline.nationalarchives.gov.uk/- if he fought in WW1 he should have received a medal but there is no sign of him which is strange. Do you have any details of what service he was in?
The following page gives details of how to apply for army service records http://www.mod.uk/contacts/army_records.htmhttp://www.mod.uk/contacts/army_records.htmand http://www.mod.uk/contacts/rn_records.htmhttp://www.mod.uk/contacts/rn_records.htm for Royal Navy records and it might be worth contacting them to make enquiries - if you haven't already done so. His father was in the navy so it is possible he was in the navy as well.
I note that the web page mentioned says:
The Ministry of Defence does not normally release information from a service record to persons other than the individual concerned or their next of kin.There is a search fee for genealogical enquiries which currently stands at £25.00.
4. Officers and Soldiers pre 1921
Because of bombing in 1940 only about 25% to 30% of soldiers' records from the period 1914-1920 have survived
Please do keep in contact because I am most interested in Charles Reuben Baster now that you have started the search for him.
I look forward to hearing from you again.
Best wishes
Jean
( Jean C Noble, Whitley Bay, Tyne & Wear, UK.)
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