Birth: 18 July 1906 Shincliffe, Durham, UK
Father: Moffat Forster 1868-1947
Mother: Mary Ann Davidson 1881-1941
Marriage: April-June 1933 Brampton, Cumberland, UK
Wife: Margaret Tait 1912-1987
Death: 27 August 1989 Denton Mill, Low Row, Brampton, Cumbria, UK
Keith Forster 1933-1933
Raymond Forster 1935-12019
Margaret Elizabeth Forster [Smith] 1936-1987
Anne Forster 1940
Carol Forster 1949
Birth of Hugh Forster in FreeBMD in July-September 1906 in Durham (10a 475).
His first brother was born in Shincliffe, Durham in 1908, and second in Nether Denton, Cumberland in 1909.
In the 1911 census as Hugh Forster aged 4, born in Shincliffe, Durham, and living with his parents (Moffat and Mary Ann), four brothers (John, Moffat, Tom and William Gordon), a servant (John Lynn aged 19, single and a horseman on farm), a domestic servant (Sarah Ellen Bell aged 15 and born in Longtown, Cumberland), and a visitor (Sarah Ann Armstrong aged 35, born in Garrigill, Cumberland, single and a disengaged housekeeper) in six rooms at White Knowe, Penton, Nichol Forest, Carlisle, Cumberland.
Marriage of Hugh Forster and Margaret Tait in FreeBMD in April-Jue 1933 in Brampton (10b 1113).
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Hugh Forster born 18 July 1906, married, a motor haulage contractor, and living with Margaret Forster (wife?), Margaret E Forster (daughter?), and one other (son?) at Elm Tree Farm, Border, Cumberland.
His first three children were born in Brampton from 1933 to 1936 and last two in Border from 1940 to 1949.
His wife died in Brampton in 1987.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Hugh Forster, born 18 July 1906, in August 1989 in Carlisle (1 275).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Hugh Forster died 27 August 1989 in Brampton, Cumbria, probate 12 October 1989 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. "Forster, Hugh of Denton Mill Low Row Brampton Cumbria died 27 August 1989 Probate Newcastle-upon-Tyne 12 October Not exceeding £100000".
There are twenty two entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Hugh Forster.
Note that Brampton, Cumberland became part of Border in 1937, which became part of Carlise, Cumbria in 1974.
Hugh Forster was the father of Raymond Forster, husband of Ann Hutchison Lauder, first cousin once removed of Peter Purves, husband of Isabella Richardson Steele, wife of Robert James Gordon, father of Irene Alice Gordon, wife of George William Barton, brother of Dennis Alfred Barton, my brother-in-law.
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