Bastwitch is used as a family name or surname in England. It is 9 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Bastwitch
No. of characters: 9
Origin: England
Meaning:

A variant of Bostock. A township in county of Chester.

A derivation of Boast. Perhaps a corruption of some local name like Bowhurst.

Some thirty years ago, a worthy possessor of this name, while dressing one winter morning, wrote it with his finger nail upon a frosted pane of his window— "Boast" -and then added— "not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." True and prophetic words--- for in one short hour (having been crushed by the fall of a building) he was brought into that chamber-dead.

Family name is a variant form of Bostwick. One who came from Bostock, i.e., Bota's cell, in Cheshire.

Bastwitch is a variation of Bastick. Bastwick, a chapelry, county of Norfolk.

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