Kitley Heritage - Bastard impaling Killiowe

37/ Or a chevron azure Impaling Or a chevron sable in the chief two cinquefoils of the second in the point a star of the second – Bastard impaling Killiowe

Joseph Bastard of Dulo, Cornwall, married Ann, daughter and heiress of John Killiowe, c1590. The son of John Bastard (q.v. shield 33), Joseph Bastard moved to Cornwall but later established the family at Gerston and West Alvington, and it was from him that the main Bastard line, those who were to later take up residence at Kitley, descended. However, it is likely that his brother William might in fact have already been at Gerston during these years, and was perhaps himself Lord of the Manor, having inherited the Estate from their father, for it was William Bastard, rather than Joseph, who is known to have purchased the Manor of Buckland in the Moor from Raphe Woodleigh in 1614, which suggest that it was William Bastard who held the main Devonian family fortunes at the time and thus, by inference, the Gerston estate. Aside from the fact that William Bastard was MP for Dartmouth 1601 and Reader of the Middle Temple, all that is known a about him is that he married an Elizabeth but had no children by her. Her surname has not been found, but the marriage is possibly depicted in one of the Bastard impalements at Kitley which as yet remain unidentified – although, as has already been suggested, these four shields (q.v. shields 26,28,30 & 31) probably denote marriages from much earlier periods. Joseph Bastard died in 1633, and his brother William in 1639 (q.v. shield 39).