General Notes

Title: Forster Resources: Will and Codicil of Francis Forster of Buston and Deal, England, dated in 1778; Will and Codicil of William Forster, dated Sept. 8 and Oct. 20, 1778, respectively; Will of Sir William Burroughs, dated July 19, 1825, with several Codicils; Will and Codicil of Robert Salter, dated Aug. 23, 1831 and March 22, 1833, respectively; Will of Susannah Salter, dated June 12, 1845; Affidavit, with exhibits, of Francis Forster from July 1880; collection of letters, poems and various other documents of William B. Forster, including letters from 1910 during his emigration voyage to the United States; certificates of birth, marriage and death of Forster "clan", beginning with Francis Forster; letters and notes of Ada Forster to Mildred Forster [Archerd], including Hancock genealogy, and account of Ada's trip to England in the summer of 1939; Gladys Bowman Forster letters concerning England and voyage to Philippines; correspondence of Mildred Forster Archerd with relatives in England; and review in January1992 of Forster materials in possession of Clifton B. Forster, and extended discussions and correspondence with Clifton and his wife Nancy from and after 1992. Warkworth, Margate and other Parish Registers - extracts available on-line at LDS website. Using these resources, as well as resources of the Society of Genealogists, London, I have found significant evidence tying my Forster side into the Forster gentry of Low Buston, Warkworth parish, Northumberland; beyond that, going further back, reliance is exclusively on the research of Joe Forster, as set forth in his manuscript "The Fighting Forsters, Fosters", copy in library of Society of Genealogists in London, England. This typed Manuscript was completed in 1983; Mr. Forster is now deceased. On an introductory page, Mr. Forster writes: "In compiling this family history I must acknowledge the great help I received from the following: - the staffs of the Harris Library, Preston, the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, and the Libraries of Newcastle and Durham, and particularly the staffs of the Public Record Offices at Gosforth and Durham. My thanks to the late Norman Walton of Gateshead, to Frank Vaughan of Wembley, to A. Poole of Wimbleton, to Bob Forster of Plymouth, to Mrs. Willis of Durham, to A.W. Rolfe of London, to Ann Power of South Shields, to Brian Bacon of Queensland, to Mrs. J. Weisenberg, nee Forster, of California, and to Paul Purvis, a fellow Dunelmian, and his cheerful staff at Prontaprint, Preston. . . .The following books are some of the sources used in compiling the family history . . . : - 'Callendar of Border Papers' by Jos. Baines; 'Complete Peerage'; 'Chronicles of Stephen Foster's Family' by E.F. Mornewerek; Catholic Record Society Vols; 'Coaching in the North Country' by M. Jamison; "Dorothy Forster' by Besant; 'Dorothy' by J. Bird; Durham & Northumberland Wills, Surtees Society . . . ; 'Border History' by Ridpath; Burke's 'Landed Gentry'; 'Foster's of Cold Hesledon' by Joseph Foster; 'Aldermaston' by W. Money; 'Foster-Barham Genealogy' by F. Foster-Barham; 'Epistolarium Forsterianum' by Dr. T. Forster; Heralds Visitations, Northern Counties, and Berks; 'History of Northumberland' by Rev. J. Hodgson; 'History of Durham' by Surtees; 'History of Corbridge' by R. H. Forster; 'History of Newton Cap' by Surtees; 'History & Antiquities of North Durham' by Rev. J. Raine; 'Life of W. E. Forster' by T. W. Reid; Memoirs of Robert Carey; 'Men of Mark Twixt Tyne & Tweed' by R. Welford; 'North Country Sketches' by Neasham; 'The Steel Bonnets' by G. M. Fraser . . . ; 'Yorkshire Catholics' by Peacock; publications of the North-east Catholic History Society. The Manuscript of Dr. Ann Forster, and the Bell Collection, are both deposited at the Northumberland Record Office, Melton Park, Gosforth, Newcastle." And see: Foster Genealogy, by Frederick Clifton Pierce, 1899 - Press of W.B. Conkey Company, Chicago (LDS


IO2255 Due to a typographical error in the Folger record(Herbert Folger, 1920), many mistakenly assumed that Hugh's wife, Ann, maiden name was Eaton and that her father was Francis Eaton.  This is not true. per Calkins Record<Jan 2004, p 4