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- PARENTAGE OF REGINALD NOT PROVEN, but it is believed to be as follows:
29. REGINALD28 FOSTER (THOMAS27 FORSTER, CUTHBERT26, THOMAS25, THOMAS24,
THOMAS23, THOMAS22, THOMAS21, WILLIAM20, RICHARD19, REGINALD18,
ALFRED17, RANDOLF16, JOHN15, WILLIAM14, REGINALD13, HUGO12, RICHARD11
FORESTER, BALDWIN10 IV, BALDWIN9 III, ARNULF8, BALDWIN7 II, JUDITH QUEEN
OF WESSEX6, CHARLES II KING OF FRANCE5, LOUIS I EMPEROR OF THE WEST4,
CHARLEMAGNE EMPEROR OF THE WEST3, PEPIN THE SHORT2, CHARLES1 MARTEL) was
born Abt. 1595 in prob. Exeter, Devon, ENGLAND.
also
Reginald Foster came to America in one of the vessels embargoed by King
Charles I, accompanied by his wife, Judith, five sons and two daughters,
and settled in Ipswich, Mass., about the year 1638, and was one of the
earliest inhabitants of that town. His English ancestry, beginning with
his father, was as follows: Thomas, Cuthbert, Sir Thomas, Sir Thomas,
Sir Thomas, Sir Thomas, Sir Thomas, Sir William, Sir Richard, Sir
Reginald, Sir Hugo, and Sir Richard. A sister of Sir Richard, named
Matilda or Maude, was the wife of William I, the Conqueror, King of
England. From Sir Richard Forester sprung the Blake Foresters of
Ashfield and Knockmoy Abbey, County of Galway, and Inchorey Castle,
County of Clare; also, the Foresters of Etherston and Bamborough Castle
on Northumberland, who are so vividly described in the historical novel,
"Dorothy Forster", by Sir Walter Besant, the celebrated English
novelist.
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An e-mail message from John Sanders 16 January 1998: "I am relieved to
know that there are doubts on your side of the Pond about the
identification of Reginald Forster m. Judith Wignol of Theydon Garnon
with Reginald s/o Thomas F of Brunton and Elizabeth Carr. " There are
some problems in your data though. Leaving aside the question about
which daughter of William Carr and Ursula Brandling married Thomas
Forster of Brunton, Elizabeth was still unmarried when her father died.
In M.M. Meikle: "Northumberland divided: Anatomy of a 16C bloodfeud" in
Archaeologia Aeliana Series 5 Vol XX, p. 86/7, she writes "... In early
January 1589 William died from an illness that may have been
precipitated by the court case [litigation with the Herons about the
title to Ford - JS]. He was aged thirty-seven and knowing that he was
about to die he hurriedly leased his lands at Crookham to his brother
Ralph in return for three marriage portions of £200 to be given to his
daughters Elizabeth, Jane and Eleanor. On the very same day he put his
heir Thomas, aged eleven, and his younger son, William, into the safe
custody of Lord Hunsdon [President of the Council in the North and a
cousin of Queen Elizabeth - JS] for the duration of their minority along
with all rights to their lands and marriage. ..." (relying on his
inquisition post mortem Public Record Office ref: C142/227/195). This
has to mean that Elizabeth was still unmarried in 1589. Yet there is an
alleged marriage to Thomas Forster as early as 1580 at Gisburn, ? the
one in Yorkshire. This problem will not be lessened if it was Jane, not
Elizabeth who married Thomas, since Jane was the younger. According to
the IGI 1992 edition, the Guisburn marriage is based on data from their
extraction programme and so from a formal record of some kind. I would
suggest that the Gisburn record was misread and should have been 1590.
This is consistent with the unverified baptismal record for Elizabeth on
24 May 1575 at St Nicholas, Newcastle upon Tyne, in the IGI. This data
is a third party submission so may not be reliable, but is specific
enough to look credible, pending verification. A 1590 marriage would
also close the otherwise unlikely gap between marriage and birth of
Reginald 1595- but that date is itself inconsistent with Elizabeth's
reported demise in 1594. All this needs clarifying. "The idea that
Reginald, with his father still very much alive (an unverified IGI entry
suggests he was born 1555), and apparently with no other children
(really ?), trotted off to Essex and married there, produced a family
and migrated to the US strains credulity a bit. Although name variants
do get mixed up they often indicate a different origin. In the North,
the variant Foster is not common in the 16C . I think it imprudent to
assume that someone named Foster recorded in Essex could safely be
identified with a family in the North called Forster over many
generations, unless there was explicit evidence to support it. In the
light of Philip Gray's apparent doubts, it looks as though such evidence
is lacking. At all events, until this question is settled, there is not
much point in pursuing the unresolved aspects of the Carr of Ford
descent."
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The Ancestors of Reginald Foster
the English and Flemish ancestors of Reginald Foster were:
1st - Anacher Great Forrester, of Flanders, who died A.D. 837 and son
2nd- Baldwin I, of Flanders, called "Iron Arms"- he married the Princess
Judith, daughter of "Charles the Bald" (Charles II). King of Ayentena and Neustria. He died
at Awa 877 and was succeeded by his son.
3rd - Baldwin II of Flanders, married the Princess Alfreth, daughter of "Alfred
the Great", King of England. He made war against Endes Count of Paris who usurped the French
Crown and defeated him. Died 919 A.D. and was succeeded by his son, Arnulf of
Flanders, who was succeeded by his son
4th - Baldwin III of Flanders- married the daughter of the Count of
Luxembourg- was a great warrior and defended his country against the united
forces of Emperor Henry, King Roland of France, and the Duke of Normandy. Died
1034 and succeeded by his son.
5th - Baldwin IV, he married the Princess Adela, daughter of Roland of France, King of France
by whom he had issue:
1. Baldwin V
2. Robert Forrester, surnamed the Freislander from his having conquered the
principality of Freisland.
3. Sir Richard Forester and his father, Baldwin IV of Flanders passed over to England with his brother in law, William the Conqueror and was knighted for bravery after the Battle of Hastings in which he took part. Sir Richard was the ancestor from whom Reginald descended.
4. Matilda of Maud- she married William I, surnamed Conqueror of England.
William, Duke of Normandy was born 1024. He was surnamed William the Conqueror
from his triumph over Harold at Hastings, on 14 Oct. 1066, and crowned King of
England by Alfred, Archbishop of York at Westminister Abbey.
The above information was transcribed from Partial Genealogy of Story Family,
by George L. Story, 3 pages,written 2/13/1942.
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