Elizabeth Overend [Foster] b1721-1761

Dates

Birth: Before 1721
Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown

Christening: Unknown

Marriage: 7 August 1736 St Oswald, Guiseley, Yorkshire, UK
Husband: David Foster b1721-1765

Death: 1761 Horsforth, Yorkshire, UK
Burial: 3 December 1761 Horsforth Chapel, Guiseley, Yorkshire, UK

Children

Joseph Foster 1737
David Foster 1738-b1741
Anne Foster 1741
David Foster 1743
William Foster 1746
Sarah Foster 1748
Abraham Foster 1750
John Foster 1753-1808
Mary Foster 1755

Notes

I cannot find an entry for her christening, even in the Guiseley Baptisms although many of the entries are said to be illegible. There were numerous familes of Overends in the area going back to 1600 including 32 between 1700 and 1720.

Marriage of Elizabeth Overend and David Foster in the IGI on 7 August 1736 in Guiseley, Yorkshire. The same information is in Guiseley Marriages and in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973.

Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812 for the marriage of Elizabeth Overend and David Foster on 7 August 1736 at Guiseley, St Oswald. "Marriages att Guiseley Church 1736 [...] August 7 David Foster & Elizabeth Overend ?".

All the children were christened in Horsforth. All the entries in Horsforth Baptisms except that for Mary.

Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812 for the burial of Eliz Foster, husband David Foster, on 3 Dcember 1761 in Guiseley, St Oswald. Buried at ye Chapell of Horsforth bewteen March ye 25th 1761 and March ye 25th 1762 [...] Dec. 3 Eliz. Wife of David Foster Lab".

Guiseley: The Burial Registers for Horsforth Chapel, Guiseley PRs 1721-1772 has very few entries for 1761 in spite of the large number clearly written on the original.

Guiseley is 11 miles NW of Leeds on A65, and included the chapelries of Horsforth and Rawdon.

Relationship

Elizabeth Overend was Felicity's fifth great grandmother.

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