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[Foster Tree from Bonny.FTW]

aged 64 yrs 9months
Married Sophia Campbell (1816-1884) Had at least 10 children.
1871 census:
Age: 60
Birthplace:US
Religion: New Connexion Methodist
Origin: ENGLISH
District: WELLINGTON CTRE. ( 034 )
Sub-district: Erin ( F )
Division: 2
Page: 21
Microfilm reel:
C-9947
Reference:
RG31 Statistics Canada
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Note    H00408         Index
Do I have the right William with the right couple? I have to wonder given when he started having children.
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Note    H00409         Index
There were many persons with the last name of Foster (spelled in various ways) in Hawkhurst, going back to at least 1613. As this was one of the first films I ever looked at, I did not do that great a job.
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Note    H00410         Index
Why did I put him here as he could not have been born then?
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Note    H00411         Index
When I first found the below family in 1871, I wondered if this Jesse died to be replaced by one who was born in about 1827. It seems very close in time for this one to have married and had a child Jesse in 1827. From looking at all records, it looks as if it was another family altogether.

I don't know what happened to him but in 1881 there was a family in Hawkhurst as follows:
Jesse FOSTER M 54 M Hawkhurst, Kent, England
Rel: Head
Occ: Ag Lab Oxen Driver
Grace FOSTER M 41 F Dallington, Sussex, England
Rel: Wife
George FOSTER U 25 M Hawkhurst, Kent, England
Rel: Son
Occ: Oxen Driver (Ag Lab)
Jesse FOSTER 15 M Hawkhurst, Kent, England
Rel: Son
Occ: Ag Lab Oxen Mate
Harry FOSTER 13 M Hawkhurst, Kent, England
Rel: Son
Occ: Ag Lab Scholar Mate
Edmund FOSTER 10 M Hawkhurst, Kent, England
Rel: Son
Occ: Scholar
Elizabeth Ann FOSTER 8 F Hawkhurst, Kent, England
Rel: Daur
Occ: Scholar
Mary Jane FOSTER 6 F Hawkhurst, Kent, England
Rel: Daur
Occ: Scholar
Herbert Walter FOSTER 3 M Hawkhurst, Kent, England
Rel: Son
Grace FOSTER 9 m F Hawkhurst, Kent, England
Rel: Daur

I am guessing it was this Jesse's son and family.

In 1871, Jesse was absent for the census but Grace and the kids were there. He was listed as a lodger in Reigate Foreign in Surrey. I wonder why he was there alone? She was clearly his second wife as she had children of her own and was described as
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Note    H00412         Index
In assigning a date of death and his wife's given names, I am making a guess based on a MI from the Cherrington cemetery which has a Thomas William Shepard who died January 31, 1958 at age 79 years. That would make him the right age for "my" T. W. Shepard but I may well be wrong.
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Note    H00413         Index
The "fact" that he existed comes from the tree from Don Smith.
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Note    H00414         Index
She was apparently a well known music teacher in ?
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Note    H00415         Index
This child i.e. referred to as an un-named infant in the history dated February 17, 2000 drawn by ? The article re Abraham says that she died at
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Note    H00416         Index
He died at the age of 9 months.
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Note    H00417         Index
She was in Minneapolis at the time of her sister Elizabeth Jane's death.
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Note    H00418         Index
She died under the age of one. The article re Abraham Haley says that she died at the age of 6 months.