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I am trying to find descendants of my great grandfather's brothers and sisters. They lived in Erdington, Warwickshire

John Slater Foster was a brass founder master born in Darlaston, Staffordshire and son of Samuel S. Foster and Mary Warrender. He married Kate Critchley from King’s Stanley, Gloucestershire. Kate was the 3rd child of Henry Critchley and Ellen Godsell. John and Kate had several children:


1) Mary E (Ellen I presume after her grandmother Ellen Godsell) Foster born 1872.
2) Carl Critchley Foster born 1874 married Bertha Adelaide “Evans”? – in 1911 one daughter called Alice Margaret Evans Foster born 1905.

3) Lionel Fred Foster born 1877 and married to Ethel Maud Walker, my great grandparents so I have all of their descendance.

4) Nell Foster married to ? and had a son named Jack ?
5) Allan Geoffrey (Geoff) Foster born born 1881 and died 1967. He married Ethel ? and in 1911 had one daughter Audrey Joan aged one. Had 2 more children afterwards, Cyntia (who left for New Zealand later) and John.
6) Irene Beatrix Foster born 1882 and married to her first cousin Frank Cecil Critchey in 1916 (Kate's nephew) They had no children.

BUT: I’m now wondering if in fact Mary E (Ellen) was in fact Nell and that they were one person as on the 1891 census there are Mary E, Carl C, Lionel F,Allan G and Irene B with no mention of another girl.

Kate Critchley Foster died young in 1886 at the age of 36 and John Slater Foster got remarried to a girl called Elizabeth Alice, born in Billesdon, Leicester, who is living with him and all the children in 1891 in Erdington. They had a daughter called Dorothy Elizabeth (therefore my great grandfather's half-sister) in 1993.

If anyone has any information about this family, I'd be most interested

Look in search trees for possible links on GR

Thanks, I've already tried but with no success so far.

If you use FreeBMD

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl

you can firm up some of the vague parts of your info. For instance, if you search for th emarriage of John Slater Foster to Elizabeth Alice, you will have her surname (click on the page number beside his name). You can then find her birth. (She was no "girl" in 1890.)

The question about Mary E's name could also be answered by finding her birth (Yes, "Nell" is very likely Mary Ellen, I would say), and there is a 1896 marriage in Aston registration district that matches her name. You can easily find Allan Geoffrey Foster's wife's name too, etc.

Births after 1911 can be searched by the combination of surname and mother's surname. For instance, there is a Foster birth in 1914 in Aston with the mother's surname of Allan Geoffrey's wife.

This is all way too much fun for someone else to do for you!

And it will give you a number of other names that you can search trees here at GR for.

Thank you very much!

You're very welcome. I've never been sure whether to kiss or curse the person who first pointed me at FreeBMD nearly 8 years ago. ;)

My very first search turned up the mystery that I have spent the years since solving ... and I'm not done yet ...

I've found My gg grandfather's second wife's surname, and I've also found Mary EZllen Foster's marriage in 1896. However I don't seem to understand how I can find the name of her husband?

Click on the page number, to bring up all the names on the page...........

Use 1901 census to determine which of the males she married........there are usually two marriages on each page

Thank you!

In case you don't have Ancestry......here's a helping hand

1901

Name: Mary E Bill
Age: 29
Estimated birth year: abt 1872
Relation: Wife
Spouse's name: Charles Bill
Gender: Female
Where born: Saltley, Warwickshire, England

Civil Parish: Yardley
Ecclesiastical parish: Yardley St Edburgh
Town: Stechford
County/Island: Worcestershire
Country: England


Registration district: Solihull
Sub-registration district: Solihull
ED, institution, or vessel: 8
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 20
Household Members: Name Age
Charles Bill 34
Mary E Bill 29
Charles G Bill 3
Maria Murphy 22 Servant

1911 for the same family

Person: BILL, Charles
Address: Carlsruhe Boldmere Road

Cost:
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BILL, Charles Head Married M 44 1867 Insurance Agent General Warwicks Aston VIEW
BILL, Mary Ellen Wife Married
14 years F 39 1872 Warwicks Saltley VIEW
BILL, Charles Geoffrey Son Single M 13 1898 School Warwicks Stechford VIEW
BILL, John William Son Single M 5 1906 Warwicks Erdington VIEW
SMITH, Harriet Servant Single F 22 1889 General Servant Domestic Staffs Brownhills VIEW

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RG number:
RG14 Piece:
18373 Reference:
RG14PN18373 RG78PN1104 RD385 SD6 ED2 SN31

Registration District:
Aston Sub District:
Sutton Coldfield Enumeration District:
2 Parish:
Sutton Coldfield

Elder son's death

Name: Charles G Bill
Death Registration Month/Year: 1948
Age at death (estimated): 51
Registration district: Wednesbury
Inferred County: Staffordshire
Volume: 9b
Page: 731

Thank you so much. This is such a help.

Next, you'll be spending the grocery money on a subscription at Ancestry! And certificates ... (The voice of experience speaks.)

Thanks Flick -- I'm supposed to be working so I hadn't gone beyond Bill or Brown. ;)

Benedicte -- when you've got the various offspring and their marriages and kids sorted as far as you can, go ahead and post an updated list (in this thread) of each family unit -- we generally say births up to the early 1920s, as beyond that, people may be living.

Ancestry has an index of deaths up to 2005 (showing and searchable by age at death / year of birth, and exact date of birth after 1969), so finding death dates and places for the various names could help you also, and those of us with subscriptions can do that (as Flick did there). Info about births and marriages of possibly living people can be sent to you by private message.

Can't believe how quick to help the 2 of you have been. I've been stuck on my great grandfather's family for ages!
And by the way the grocery money has already gone on a subscription to Ancestry when looking up my great granfather's mother's family!!

Now that I've got plenty of information about the Foster family in Erdington I'm now tying to go back to our ancestors but have got stuck with my gggg grandfather, Thomas Foster.

Thomas Foster born around 1783 in Darlaston, a woodscrew maker. In the 1851, 1861 and 1871 censuses he is living with his second wife, Sarah (33 years younger than him). He is still working at 88 years old (1871) with around 20 employees.
His son, Samuel Slater Foster got married to Mary Warrender in 1839 and appears to have worked for him.
I can't find out who Thomas Foster's first wife (and mother of Samuel) is. I presume her surname must have been Slater but just an idea.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to find this out by any chance? I've been trying for a while and don't seem to be getting anywhere. I can't find him on the 1841 census.

????????

Deaths Mar 1860 (>99%)
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Foster Samuel Slater Walsall 6b 396


However, I can't see an 1839 marriage...........

Samuel Foster married Mary Warrender 24/08/1839 at St Lawrence Church Darlaston.
I ordered their marriage certificat to have Samuel's father's name and occupation.
Thomas Foster - wood screw maker
Thomas Warrender (Mary's fahter) Shoe Maker

I take that back.......no second initial on the marriage record.........

Marriages Sep 1839 (>99%)
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Foster Samuel Walsall 17 211
WARRENDER Mary Walsall 17 211

that's them but now I'm completely stuck with Samuel's father