Thomas FOSTER

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Name Thomas FOSTER
Death Date bef 1586
Spouses
1 Dorothy AUSTIN, 10G Grandmother
Birth Date abt 1559
Birth Place Biddenden, County Kent, England
Baptism Place All Saints Church, Biddenden
Death Date 1618 Age: 59
Death Place Biddenden, County Kent, England
Burial Date 1 Jan 1619
Burial Place Biddenden, County Kent, England
Father Henry AUSTIN
Mother Anne
Marriage Date 20 Jan 1580/1581
Children Richard
UNNAMED
UNNAMED
Notes for Dorothy (Spouse 1)
Daughter of Mary Austin and widow of Thomas Foster.

The will of Dorothy Bestbeech of Biddenden in the County of Kent, widow, 27 Dec. 1619. To Thomas Foster's three children a pair of sheets each. To Philip daughter of my son John Besbeech a pair of sheets. To Mary daughter of my son Richard Foster a bedstead and a cupboard. To John son of my son John Besbeech six napkins and a silver spoon now in his father's hands. To Mary Rowlett, my son Thomas Bestbeech's servant maid, a gown now in my son Thomas' house. To Margery Winter, my son John Besbeech's maid servant, a gown. To John the son of my son John Beale �6, part of such money as his father oweth me. To my son John Besbeech all such money as is due from him to me out of the yearly rent he is to pay me, at my decease. To my son Thomas Besbeech all such household stuff of mine as he hath in his keeping, except my linen, and all such rent as shall be due from him to me, except �3 which he shall pay to my son Richard Foster. Residue of all my moveable goods and chattels unbequeathed to my son Richard Foster, whom I make executor [signed] The marke of Dorothy Bestbeech. Witness: John Stow (emigrant to New England) Proved 4 Jan. 1619/20 by the executor named. (Archdeaconry of Canterbury, vol. 61, fo. 51)
Last Modified 1 Aug 1998 Created 12 Apr 2001

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