Birth: 1791, Bradford, Yorkshire, UK
Father: John Foster 1753-1808
Mother: Zillah Lambert 1759-1847
Christening: 16 October 1791 Bradford, Yorkshire, UK
Marriage: 15 March 1812 in Saint Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Wife: Mary Matthewman 1792-c1846
Death: May 1846 Wortley, Yorkshire, UK
Buried: 31 May 1846 St John the Evangelist, Wortley, Yorkshire, UK
Elizabeth Foster 1815
Joseph Foster 1818-1890
Mary Foster 1822-a1841
Naomi Foster [Longbottom] 1824-1880
Martha Pickard Foster [Barraclough] 1826-a1881
Ruth Foster [Longbottom] 1828-1850
Christening of Joseph Foster in the IGI on 16 October 1791 in Bradford, Yorkshire, father John Foster. The same information is in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975.
Entry in in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812 for the baptism of Joseph Foster on 16 October 1791 in Bradford, Yorkshire, father John Foster at Bradford, St Peter (Bradford Cathedral), Yorkshire. "Christenings October 1791 {Bradford Church} [...] 16 Joseph S: of John Foster of Manningham"
Marriage of Joseph foster and Mary Matthewman in the IGI on 15 March 1812 in Saint Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire. The same information is in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973.
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812 for Joseph Foster and Mary Matthewman on 15 March 1812 at Leeds St Peter. "No. 123 Joseph Foster of this Parish Clothier and Mary Matthewman of this Parish Spinster Married in this Church, by Banns this fifyeenth Day of March in the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and twelve [ ... he signed his name, she made her mark] In the Presence of John Nupley Robt Hargrave".
The first four children were christened in Wortley-by-Leeds, the last two in an unknown non-comfist chapel in one of Halton, Leeds, Micklefield, Osmondthorpe or Stanningley.
In the 1841 census as Joseph Foster aged 50 (rounded down to a multiple of 5), employed as a clothier and living with Mary (wife?), Joseph (son?), Mary Ann, Naomi, Martha Pichard and Ruth (daughters?), and George Mathewsman (I assume a relative of his wife) in Low Wortley, Tankersley Yorkshire.
Death of Joseph Foster in FreeBMD April-June 1846 in Hunslet (23 244).
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1985 for Joseph Foster on 31 May 1846 aged 60 at Wortley, St John the Evangelist, Yorkshire. "Page 108 Burials in the Parish of Leeds Chapelry of Wortley in the County of York in the Year 1846 .Joseph Foster No. 857 of Wortley on May 31 aged 60".
There are ten entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Joseph Foster.
Manningham is NW of Bradford on the A6177/A650.
Joseph Foster was Felicity's third great grandfather.
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