Bertram Henry Basten (b.1888 Merton, Surrey)

[rutht22000]

I have lost Bertram and his parents from 1891 onwards.

His parents were George and Esther (George's second wife) who in 1890 were imprisoned for 6 months with hard labour for wilful neglect of a child under 14.

This could cover Bertram or any of his half siblings, Jeanne, Winifred and Edward who were all under 14 at the time.

I have no idea where Bertram, George or Esther have gone after the 1891 census in Battersea where the family are all back together after the parents came out of prison (RG12 431 92 44).

Edward, Winifred and Jeanne all get married and have families before 1911 but Bertram and his parents have disappeared although I think that Esther marries again in 1902 in Steyning, Sussex (where her stepdaughter Jeanne 'marries'  - but this another story as her marriage to her husband Louis Dent is registered in Wandsworth in 1898 and again in Steyning in 1904)

Thanks
Ruth

[avm228]

The mistreated child was Edward Knight Basten, 12, systematically starved by his father & stepmother, expelled from school for stealing other children's food and kept locked in the cellar at times. At trial he was reported to be emaciated.  The other children were healthy and well cared for.

Per various newspaper reports.

[carol8353]

Is this them in 1901- in Hove Sussex.
Bertram using the alternative name for his middle name of Henry?

Esther Basten    45 widow ,sick nurse b St Stanbridge Surrey
Lionel Basten    15  son bakers journeyman b Collenham Park Surrey
Harry Basten    12 son scholar b Merton Surrey.

RG13/937 folio 33 page 17


Deaths Sep 1895   

Basten    George   age  41    Brighton    2b   144


Births Sep 1885   

Basten    Lionel Edwin        Kingston    2a   296

Lionel was in an inmate in an institution in 1891- age 5.
   

[carol8353]

 I think that Esther marries again in 1902 in Steyning, Sussex (where her stepdaughter Jeanne 'marries'  - but this another story as her marriage to her husband Louis Dent is registered in Wandsworth in 1898 and again in Steyning in 1904)

Thanks
Ruth

Do you know which of these chaps she married?

Marriages Jun 1902   

Basten    Esther        Steyning    2b   587    
McLeen    William         Steyning    2b   587   
Norden    Alice Mary         Steyning    2b   587   
Saunders    Daniel         Steyning    2b   587    

[carol8353]

It looks like Louis Randolph DENT was a sergeant in the RMLI and would have needed permission to marry- maybe he wasn't given that in 1898 so actually married for real in 1904 in Steyning,even though they already had children.

[carol8353]

If George's first wife was Annie,then this seems to be them in 1881.

George Bastin    27
Annie L. Bastin    25
Jeanne M. Bastin    4
Ernest K. Bastin    3

And this is his birth,can't see an Edward at all,as mentioned by AVM as being the mistreated child.

Births Jun 1878   

Basten    Ernest Kingett        Kingston    2a   280

[jennifer c]

Looks like George's parents were from Devon.

Jennifer

[jennifer c]

Looks like Ernest Kingett Basten joined the Royal Marines married and died in 1944

Jennifer

[jennifer c]

There is a death for an Esther Saunders in 1904 Eastbourne right age .

Jennifer