Robert (3) Bathurst

This page draws mostly upon material from documents supplied by Mr. John Bathurst of Quebec from his Collection of Genealogical, Biographical and Historical Records of the Family of Bathurst, and appears here by his kind permission. The John Bathurst Collection [JBC] assigns to each individual Bathurst a unique four-digit reference number prefixed by a #.

Brief biography

Robert (3) Bathurst [JBC: #4983] probably originated from the Bathursts of Lechlade in Gloucestershire. He married at St. Giles Cripplegate on December 28th 1761 to Mary Cash. Mary was possibly the child baptized on May 23rd 1743 at St. Dunstan, Stepney of parents Alexander Cash and his wife Elizabeth Newlee who had married at St. Dunstan on July 31st 1729 [IGI: Batch M055763].

In 1764 he was at Haggerston in Shoreditch, and in 1774 he was at George Yard in London EC3.

It is not known when he or his wife died.

His children by Mary Cash

1. Ann (1) Bathurst [JBC: #4984] - baptized at St. Leonard, Shoreditch on November 27th 1764
2. Robert (4) Bathurst [JBC: #5298] - baptized at St. Matthew, Bethnal Green on May 24th 1767
3. Mary (1) Bathurst [JBC: #4985] - baptized at St. Leonard, Shoreditch on June 13th 1774
4. Robert (1) Bathurst [JBC: #4986]
5. and possibly others ...

Robert (4) may have died young. Mary (1) was buried at St. Leonard aged 3 weeks in 1774.