Andrewe (Forster) Foster

Born [date unknown] in England

Ancestors

Husband of Margery (Elliott) Foster — married 17 May 1584 in St Dunstan, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, England [uncertain]

Died 1621 in Gilston, Hertfordshire

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Andrewe Foster of Gilston, Hertforshire^[1]

b. _____^{[citation needed][2]}

Disambiguation

• Andrew Foster of Andover, MA (d. 07 May 1685).
• Andrew Foster of Hormead, Hertford (living 1642).[7]

Biography

Andrewe Foster of Gilston (nuncupative will 1622), is the brother of Michael. Nothing is certain about Andrew's origins, but he married Margery Elliott of Olyves -- now called Olives farm, located in Hertforshire.

Andrew's nephew Joseph (son of Michael Foster), was living in 1650, when he and Samuel Petchy were appointed as jurors.[8]

Andrew Foster had no known male issue. It was Samuel Petchy and his wife Elizabeth, who were named as inheritors of Foster's estate.^[3]

Parents

• Andrew is not listed as a Forster of Hunsdon in the Visitations of Hertfordshire, during 1532 and 1634.[9]

Marriage

m. UNKNOWN. No sons.

• It's thought that Andrew is the same Andrew Foster m. (17 May 1584 Hunsdon, Hertfordshire) Margery Elliott of Olyves.[10]^[3]

Occupation

• yeoman[11]

Will

• Proved: 24 Jan 1622[12][13]

Sources

• "Andrew Foster and Margery Elliot, 1584." England Marriages, 1538–1973. FamilySearch citing Hunsdon, Hertford, England, reference 2:R0K4R2; FHL microfilm 991,316. Accessed 04 Feb 2016

• Fiske, William W. (2008). "Ancestry of Bennet Eliot of Nazeing, Essex: Father of seven great migration immigrants to Massachusetts." NEHGR, 162, pp. 71. PDF.[14]

• "Nuncupative will of Andrew Foster of Gilston, Hertfordshire, yeoman." Reference: D/ABW 44/92. Essex Record Office. Web. Accessed 13 Feb 2016.[15]

• "Notices of the pilgrim fathers, (1882). Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 10, pp. 295. GB: Royal Historical Society. Google Books.[16]^[5]

• Urwick, W. (1884). Nonconformity in Herts, pp. 678. Google Books.[17]

• Winters, W. (1882). Memorials of the Pilgrim fathers. John Eliot and his friends, of Nazing and Waltham Abbey, (pp.33). Google Books.

1. ↑ Fisk, 2008, p. 71.[1]
2. ↑ Note that Anne Forster/Foster was baptized in Jun 1553.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} "Margery Eliot's husband may have been the Andrew Foster who was buried at Gilston, Hertfordshire, 13 November 1621 (parish registers of Gilston [FHL 0,991,374]), presumably identical with Andrew Foster of Gilston, yeoman, who left an undated nuncupative will, proved in 1622, which names Samuel and Elizabeth Petchey to receive the remainder of his estate following the decease of his wife, unnamed.[2]
   No children are identified. Joseph and John Foster, sons of his brother Michael, are mentioned (Essex Record Office, Commissary Court, Essex and Herts Jurisdiction, D/ABW 13/258). While it is tempting to think that Andrew and Margery (Eliot) Foster might be the parents of Andrew Foster of Andover, Massachusetts, the author has not found any documentation to support the possibility that the couple had any surviving male heirs" (Fiske, 2008, p. 71).[3]
4. ↑ Andrew's connection to the Forsters of Hunsdon is unproven and he's not a known/recorded member of this branch. He also died without issue, but a discussion at G2G goes over why he's left in place until we can figure something out.[4]
5. ↑ citing marriage: Andrew Foster and Margery Elliot of Olyves May 17, 1584. (Olives is a farm in Hunsdon ... it's a Grade II building.[5]).