David Edgar Bastedo was born November 28, 1860 in  Woodstock, Canada West and died November 29, 1925 in Bracebridge, ON., Canada.  He was the son of Joseph Rogers Bastedo (1827-1891) and Mary Elizabeth Force (1831-1917).  On September 3, 1884 in Bracebridge, he married Elizabeth Ann Oaten (1862-1918).

 

A member of L.O.L. No. 218 of Bracebridge, he was appointed sheriff of Muskoka County in 1906. He was the chairman of the Bracebridge school board in 1912. Bastedo was the editor of “The Northern Advocate” of Bracebridge and “The Muskoka Herald”.

 

Children:

 

1  Eva L Bastedo, born 16 August 1885, Burlington, ON., Canada, Deceased in 1971

2  Frank Lindsay Bastedo, (1886-1973)

3  William Edgar Bastedo, 1888-?)

4  Mabel Annie Bastedo, born 21 January 1889, Bracebridge, ON., Canada, Deceased.
    - married 27 October 1920, Bracebridge, ON., Canada, to Percy Clark Marsh, born in 1895

4  Albert Frederick Bastedo, born 16 June 1891, Bracebridge, ON., Canada, Deceased.
    -married 6 September 1916, Toronto, ON., Canada, to Louise Dean Staples, born in 1890.

5  Olive Bessie Bastedo, born 12 September 1894, Bracebridge, ON., Canada, Deceased 1 January 1919

6  Charles Robert Bastedo, born 8 July 1897, Bracebridge, ON., Canada, Deceased.
    - married 8 September 1923, Huntsville, ON., Canada, to Flora Iris Noreen Fielding, born in 1903.

7  Joseph Burleigh BASTEDO, born 2 December 1898, Bracebridge, ON., Canada, Deceased.
    -married to Mary Angeline Reed, Deceased.

 

 

 

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Sources:

Records of Sylvia Wallen, Research file

Records of Larry McMicking  (Email to Reg McMicking)

Document: 1881 Canada Census