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First Name

Last Name
Sir Roger FORSTER

Sir Roger FORSTER[1]

Male Abt 1511 - 1545  (~ 34 years)

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  • Name Roger FORSTER 
    Prefix Sir 
    Born Abt 1511  Bamburg, Northumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 1545  Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I39899  Main
    Last Modified 10 May 2016 

    Father Sir Thomas FORSTER,   b. 1474, Etherston, Northumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Mar 1526, Bamburg, Northumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 52 years) 
    Mother Dorothy OGLE,   b. Abt 1476, Ellingham, Northumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1550, Buckton, Durham, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 74 years) 
    Family ID F12168  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Joan HUSSEY,   b. Abt 1513, Sussex County, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1605, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 92 years) 
    Children 
    +1. Thomas FOSTER,   b. 1526, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Oct 1599, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years)
    Last Modified 25 Feb 2019 
    Family ID F12167  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Fled to London after a fight over a hunting dog.
      ——
      Roger Forster married a daughter of Hussey of Sussex and had issue:
1. John Forster
     a. Roger Forster who had two daughters
2. Emilie Forster
      married Dawborne, a London merchant
3. Richard Forster, Gentleman-Usher to Queen Mary
     a. Edmund Forster
     b. William Forster
4. Thomas Forster, Gentleman 1526 Hunsdon, Hertfordshire - 1571
     married 20 July 1545 Margaret Browning
      According to "Burke's Landed Gentry" Vol II, Roger Forster is the ancestor of the family of Forster of Jamaica, Egham, and Kempstone, and from these the families of Foster-Barham and Foster of Brickhill House are descended.

  • Sources 
    1. [S106] FOSTER Genealogy, Being the Record of the Posterity of Reginald Foster, Frederick Clifton Pierce, (Press of W. B. Conkey Company, Chicago).


Notes

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Updated 23 Dec 2023