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Foster family in Erdington, Warwickshire

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Benedicte

Benedicte Report 18 Jan 2011 13:42

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

Flick

Flick Report 18 Jan 2011 12:55

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Benedicte

Benedicte Report 18 Jan 2011 12:51

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