Sir Thomas Forster, Judge

Sir Thomas Foster Find a Grave His Father Thomas Roger Forster (Sr), Sir Knight Find a Grave

Thomas changed his last name from Forster to Foster

1604 Served as The Chief Justice of Common Pleas Court Westminster England

Thomas Foster married ca 1571 Susanna Forster daughter of Thomas Forster of Iden, Sussex.

Thomas Foster was born 10 August 1548 Hunsdon Parish, Hertfordshire, England. He was the son of Thomas Foster and Margaret Browning. He died 18 May 1612 in London.

Sir Thomas Foster was a Knight and was one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster in the reign of James 1st.

Sir Thomas Foster was Chief Justice of Court of Common Pleas 1604.

Granted his crest in 1604.

Susanna Forster was born in 1551 in Iden, Sussex and died ca 1637 in Whitechurch, London. She was the heir of Thomas Forster of St. John Street, nere London, 2 son of Thomas Forster of Iden, Co Susex

Children of Thomas Foster and Susanna Forster:

1. Thomas Foster of Hunsdon married Mary dau of William Baskervile of Warnborough Co Wilts

• a. Susan Foster
• b. Mary
• c. Catherine
• d. Thomas
• e. John
• f. Edward
• g. Francis
• h. Charles
• i. Philip
• j. Lucy
• k. Bridget

2. Susan Foster est 1575 - 1612 married 1590 Thomas Brooke 1567 White Church Co Southampton

• a. Robert Brooke - the progenitor of MD

3. Mary Foster married William Peacock of Finchley

4. Catherine Foster est 1580 of Iden, Sussex - married est 1596 Francis Townley 1575 - 10 Aug 1616 of Littleton Place and London 3rd son of Nicholas Townley, left heir of his great uncle Francis Vaughan, Esq.

• a. Ann Townley ca 1598 -
• b. Honor Townley ca 1600 -
• c. Thomas Townley ca 1602 -
• d. Edmund Townley ca 1604 -
• e. Richard Townley ca 1606 -
• f. William Townley ca 1608 -
• g. Susan Townley ca 1610 -
• h. Catherine Townley ca 1612 -
• i. Nicholas Townley of Littleton 1612 - 3 Jun 1687 [? has son b 1628.]
• j. Francis Townley 1613 - 1683
• k. Frances Townley ca 1614 -
• l. Mary Townley ca 1616 -

5. George Foster d infant

6. Margaret Foster d infant

7. Martha Foster d infant

8. Sir Robert Foster 1589 - 4 Oct 1663 [Lord Chief Justice] married Elizabeth dau of Sir Edward Burton of Bourne Co Sussex

? John Thomas Foster est 1577 -

Sir Thomas Foster, Knight's tomb

Thomas was previously a Forster, but he changed his name when he married a distant cousin, Susanna Forster. He was a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas.

The Forsters were a branch of the ancient family of Etherstone, (northern England) Durham-Northumberland. Sir Thomas Forster and his brother Robert Forster, were the grandsons of Alexander Comyns (1242-1289), Earl of Buchan.

Alexander Comyns was descended from Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester (d. 1264), and from Kind David I of Scotland (who reigned from 1124 until his death in 1153).

Kind David's father was King Malcolm III (Malcolm Camore) of Scotland (who reigned from 1057 until his death in 1093). In 1057, King Malcolm III married [his second wife], Margaret. Margaret was the sister of Edgar Atheling, the daughter of Edward "the outlaw," and granddaughter of Edmund "Ironsides" Saxon, King of England (who had a short but vigorous reign from April 1016 to November 1016).

King Duncan I (who reigned from 1034 until his death in 1040), father of MalcomIII, was murdered by Macbeth. The legend of his life formed the basis of Shakespeare's "Macbeth." Macbeth established himself on the throne of Scotland after killing King Duncan I in a battle near Elgin, and not as Shakespeare has it by murdering him in his bed.

The Forster royal line appears to go back without a break to Fergus II, King of Scotland in A.D. 404.

Birth: Aug. 10, 1548 Hunsdon Hertfordshire, England Death: May 18, 1612 Hertfordshire, England

Son of Thomas Foster of Hunsdon 1526 - 1570 and Margaret Browning who were m: 20 July 1545

title Judge of Common Pleas

He is intombed inside the Church in a large canopied tomb

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Parents:

• Thomas Forster (____ - 1571)
• Margaret Browning Forster (____ - 1599)

Spouse:

• Susanna Foster Foster (1548 - 1625)

Children:

• Susan Forster Brooke (____ - 1612)*
• Robert Foster (1589 - 1663)*
• Calculated relationship

Burial: Hunsdon Parish Churchyard Hunsdon Hertfordshire, England

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Created by: Bill Foster (W.L.Foster ... Record added: Aug 07, 2009 Find A Grave Memorial# 40392729 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=40392729

Thomas Brooke, third son of Richard and Elizabeth (Twyne) Brooke, was born at White Church in 1567; married, 1590, Susan Foster, daughter of Thomas Foster, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and niece of Robert Foster, chief judge of the King's Bench. The Fosters were a branch of the ancient family of Etherstone, in the county of Durham, grandsons of Alexander Comyns, Earl of Bucan, who was descended from Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, Magna Charta Baron, and from David 1st, King of Scotland. King David's father was Malcolm III, who married Margaret, daughter of Edward (the outlaw), son of Edmund "Ironsides," Saxon King of England. King David's grandfather, Duncan I, was murdered by Macbeth, and this royal line goes back without a break to Fergus II, King of Scotland in A. D. 40.J.

The Hon Thomas Brooke died May 18th, 1612.

Issue:

Thomas Brooke, of White Church, born 1593, entertained Charles I in 1644.

2nd. Richard Brooke.

3rd. Robert Brooke, born in 1602, emigrated to Maryland; twice married, was educated for the ministry; graduated at Oxford, and was admitted to orders February 25th, 1627. He married Mary, only daughter of Thomas Baker, of Battle, and his wife Mary, daughter of sir Thomas Engham, Knight of Goodelstone in Kent. Robert Brooke had four children by this marriage, and his wife died in 1634. The following year, May 11th, 1635, he married Mary, second daughter of Roger Mainwaring, Doctor of Divinity, Dean of Worcester, and in 1636 Bishop of St. David's.

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Parents Father: Thomas Foster: Birth: 1526 in Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, , England. Death: 11 OCT 1599 in Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, , England Mother: Margaret Browning: Birth: 20 JUL 1545 in Chelmsford, Essex, , England. Death: 03 APR 1625 in Chelmsford, Essex, , England

Family Marriage: Married: Susan (Susannah ) Foster on 22 or 4 Jul 1575 at Chelmsford, Essex or Broxbourne, Herts., Hertfordshire, England.8 Susan (Susannah ) Foster: Birth: 1548 in Iden, Sussex, , England. Death: 03 APR 1625 in Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, England Children: Susan Foster: Birth: 1570 in Etherstone, Northumberland County, England. Death: 13 or 18 Sep 1612 in Whitechurch, Hampshire County, England ^Thomas Foster: Birth: 1578 in Hunsdon Herdfortshire,England. Death: 18 MAY 1612 in Ewell, Surrey, England Mary Catherine Foster: Birth: 1583 in Hunsdon Hertfordshire. Sir Robert Foster: Birth: 1589 in Hunsdon, Hartfordshire, England. Death: 04 OCT 1663 in Egham, Surrey, England ^Thomas Robert Foster: Birth: in Hunsdon England. Death: BEF 1623 in England

Thomas II Forster of Hunsford, Judge of the Common Pleas Court, married Susan Forster (of the same surname), daughter and heir of a different Thomas Forster, this one of St. John Street, near London, second son of Thomas Forster of Iden, Co. Sussex. Their children were:

Catherin, marr Francis Townley of Littleton, Middlesex
Mary, marr William Peacock of Finchley
Susan, marr Thomas Brooke of Whitchurch, Southampton
Thomas III Forster of Hunsdon, married Mary Baskerville, dau of William Baskerville of Warnborough, Wiltshire
Robert Forster of Battle, Co. Sussex, marr. Elizabeth Burton (dau of William) of Bourne, Sussex