1780 - 1835
Charles Forster/Foster, unsuccessful claimant for Lancaster estate in St Elizabeth, Jamaica, as owner-in-fee for 32 enslaved persons and tenant-for-life of 135 enslaved persons, under the will of his great-uncle Thomas Foster. Brother of Eliza Haworth (q.v.).
The case of Foster and other v Romney, heard 14/11/1809, ruled that under the will of Thomas Foster (dated 08/04/1762), the Elim, Waterford, Lancaster and Two-Mile Wood estates (as well as estates in England and Horse Savanna Pen in Jamaica) were left to his four nephews and their sons as tenants-for-life (rather than until failure of their issue). The will identifies Frederick William Foster as one of the four nephews; Charles Foster as the only son of another nephew Samuel Warren Foster, and Joseph Foster Barham as Thomas' brother. Â John Frederick Foster ('an infant'), George Foster and Henry Foster are among the defendants although not separately identified in the report: the sequence of names suggests the latter two to be the children of a third nephew, John Foster.
Unsourced online family tree gives the marriage of Samuel Warren Foster and Elizabeth Cope Custos in St Elizabeth, Jamaica, 03/01/1774 and their children as Rev Charles, Eliza and Mary. www.familysearch.org gives the christening of Eliza and Mary, daughters of Samuel Warren Foster and Elizabeth, as 13/07/1775 and 23/12/1777 in St Elizabeth, Jamaica. No sign of a birth/christening for Charles Forster/Foster. The same online family tree gives Charles's birth in 1780 in Stratford-upon-Avon and his death in 1835 in Montreuil Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
T71/870 St Elizabeth claim no. 345 (Lancaster).
Edward Hyde East, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of the King's Bench (XI, London, J. Butterworth, 1810) pp. 594-611.
[accessed 28/05/2012].
Absentee?
British/Irish
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Name in compensation records
Charles Forster
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Spouse
Laura Thornton
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£3,127 3s 1d
Unsuccessful claimant
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The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:
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1791 [SY] - → Tenant-for-life
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Brother → Sister
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Son → Father
Notes →
Tentative relationship. A son Charles was identified in the will of Samuel Warren Foster proved in 1800....
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First Cousins
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Brother-in-laws
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Brother → Sister
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