Birth: 18 September 1792 Kirkgate, Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Father: George Matthewman 1765-1848
Mother: Mary Knowles (Knowls) 1769-1808/41
Christening: 21 October 1792 St Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Marriage: 15 March 1812 St Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Husband: Joseph Foster 1791-1846
Death: October 1857 Pudsey, Yorkshire, UK
Burial: 1 November 1857 St john the Evangelist, Wortley, Yorkshire, UK
Elizabeth Foster 1815
Joseph Foster 1818-1890
Mary Anne Foster 1822-a1841
Naomi Foster [Longbottom] 1824-1880
Martha Pickard Foster [Barraclough] 1826-a1881
Ruth Foster [Longbottom] 1828-1850
Christening of Mary Matthewman in the IGI on 21 October 1792 at Saint Peter, Leeds, father George Matthewman. The same information is in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812 for Mary Matthewman born 18 September 1792, baptised 21 October 1792 at Leeds, St Peter, father George Matthewman. "167 Baptisms at the Parish Church of Leeds October 1792 [...] George Matthewman of Kirkgate Sepr 18 21 Mary".
Marriage of Mary Matthewman and Joseph foster 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 Mary Matthewman and Joseph Foster 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 Mary Foster aged 50, born in Yorkshire, employed as a school mistress, and living with Joseph (husband?), Joseph (son?), Mary Ann, Naomi, Martha and Ruth Pickard (daughters?), and George Mathewsman (aged 4 - I assume a relative) in Low Wortley, Tankersley Yorkshire.
Her husband died and was buried in Wortley in 1846.
In the 1851 census as Mary Foster aged 62, born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, and living with her son-in-law and daughter (Samuel and Martha Rikard Baradaugh) in Oldfields Lane, Wortley, Yorkshire.
Death of Mary Foster in FreeBMD in October-December 1857 in Bradford Yk (9b 124).
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1985 for Mary Foster buried 1 November 1857 at Wortley, St John the Evangelist. "Burials in the Parish of Leeds, district of Wortley in the County of York in the Year 1857 [...] Mary Foster No. 114 of Pudsey Nov 1st aged 67."
Wortley is a mile west of Leeds on B6154 and Pudsey is midway between Leeds and Bradford.
Mary Matthewman was Felicity's third great grandmother.
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