James Austin Bastow [SEP] date of death
James Austin Bastow
James Austin Bastow (1810–1894) was a Primitive Methodist Minister
James A. Bastow was born in Hunslet near Leeds in 1810 and was the eldest child of John Bastow, a weaver, and Mary Wade, As a youth he attended a Primitive Methodist church in Leeds, where he was converted and soon began to work as a lay preacher. He married Dorothy Smith on 11 November 1836. They had at least six children, three boys and three girls. Their eldest son Richard Austin Bastow became an Architect
Richard Austin Bastow
Richard Austin Bastow (14 May 1839 – 14 May 1920) was an Australian naturalist and bryologist.
R.A. Bastow was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of a scholarly parson James Austin Bastow. He was educated at The Royal Grammar School. In 1862 he eloped with Catherine Broadbent to America, Austin Bastow his son, was born in Cleveland Ohio in 1867. Richard and Catherine returned to England because of Catherine's mother's delicate health, after her death Richard and Catherine decided to emigrate to