Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 02-03-2022.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom may be downloaded here.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page

    Person Info
  • Name: Reginald FOSTER
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: Abt 1628 in England b
  • Death: 28 Dec 1707 in Chebacco, Ipswich, Massachusetts d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Renold FOSTER Birth: Exeter, Devonshire, England Death: 1681
    • Mother:
  • Judith WIGNOL Birth: England Death: Oct 1664 in Ipswich, Massachusetts

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Elizabeth FOSTER Birth: 1653 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  2. Isaac FOSTER Birth: 1656 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  3. Sarah FOSTER Birth: Abt 1660 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  4. Judith FOSTER Birth: 20 Jan 1659/60 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  5. Mary FOSTER Birth: 18 Jun 1662 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  6. John FOSTER Birth: 15 Jul 1664 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  7. Rebecca FOSTER Birth: 25 Feb 1666/7 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: 1 Jul 1684 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  8. Naomi FOSTER Birth: 6 May 1669 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  9. Ruth FOSTER Birth: 19 Dec 1671 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: 1 Jan 1677 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  10. Eleanor FOSTER Birth: 14 Jun 1673 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  11. Hannah FOSTER Birth: 5 Oct 1675 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  12. Nathaniel FOSTER Birth: 19 Sep 1678 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  13. Rebecca FOSTER Birth: 1 Jul 1684

Bibliography
  1. Davis, Walter Goodwin, Ancestry of Dudley Wildes, 1759-1820, of Topsfield, Massachusetts, Portland, Maine: Anthoensen Press, 1959. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/33853 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Davis WILDES p[0-9]*].
  2. Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, Vol 1: Dawes and Allied Families. Privately printed: Charles G Dawes, 1943. LDS Film#1035529#2. NEHGS CS71/D269/1931v1. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/256356. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p[0-9]*].
  3. Forster, Edward Jacob, Genealogy of the Fo(r)ster Family Descendants of Reginald Fo(r)ster, of Ipswich, Mass. NEHGR v30 (Jan 1876) pp83-102. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image Information from this source tagged as [Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p[0-9]*].
  4. Hammatt, Abraham, The Hammatt Papers, Early Inhabitants of Ipswich, Massachusetts. Ipswich: Antiquarian Papers, 1880. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/253245. Also available at http://archive.org/details/earlyinhabitants13hamm. Reprinted Baltimore: Gen Pub Co, 1980. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p[0-9]*].
  5. NEHGR, John Dane Pedigree, NEHGR, vol 8, Apr 1854, p148. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image Information from this source tagged as [Ref: NEHGR DANE Pedigree].
  6. Pierce, Frederick Clifton, Foster Genealogy being the record of the Posterity of Reginald Foster. Chicago: W. B. Conkey, 1899. UMI #G964. Available at http://books.google.com/?id=aohMAAAAMAAJ Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Pierce FOSTER p[0-9]*].
  7. Pope, Charles Henry, The Pioneers of Massachusetts, a Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns, and Churches, and other Contemporaneous Documents. Boston, MA: author, 1900. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1400537. Reprinted Baltimore: Genealogical Pub Co, 1986. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p[0-9][0-9a]*].
  8. Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register. Boston, MA: Little Brown & Co, 1860. Available at http://archive.org/details/genealogicaldic01savarich. Reprinted Baltimore, MD, Genealogical Published Co, 1965. Scanned and corrected by Robert Kraft, 1994, and available at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Sav-age [A-Z][A-Z]* [A-Z][a-z]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
1636 [Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p84, Pierce FOSTER p122]
abt 1628, abt 40 in 1676 but nearer 50 [Ref: Davis WILDES p181],
place:
[Ref: Pierce FOSTER p122]
before immigrating [Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p84],
parents:
[Ref: Davis WILDES p181, ForsterEJ FORSTER p84, Pierce FOSTER p122],
father:
[Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p248, Pope PioneersMA p173, Sav-age FOSTER Reginald]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p86]
1707 or 1708 [Ref: Davis WILDES p181],
place:
[Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p86]
Sources with Information about marriage to Elizabeth DANE
date:
abt 1652 [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p248],
names:
[Ref: Davis WILDES p181, Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p247, NEHGR DANE Pedigree, Pierce FOSTER p122, Sav-age DANE John],
child:
[Ref: Davis WILDES p182, ForsterEJ FORSTER p86, ForsterEJ FORSTER p87, Sav-age FOSTER Reginald]
Sources with Inaccurate marriage information
names:
Reginald FOSTER & Sarah MARTIN [Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p106]
Research Notes:
will dated 11 Jul 1704, pro 19 Jan 1707/9; mentions wife Elizabeth, three sons and three daughters [Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p106]

will dated Jul 11 1704, proved Jan 10 1708. left an estate of about #350 [Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p86]

will made Jul 11 1704, proved Jan 10 1708, left to wife Elizabeth the parlour of his house, what use of the cellar she needd, half the orchard, the keeping of a cow and two sheep, firewood "to be fetched home and cutt fit for ye fire", "a horse and one to ride before her to carry her to meeting and this my son Nathaniel Foster shall do." Sons Isaac and John to pay their mother 45s apiece yearly and "if she desires to remove to Billerica they shall carry what was brought to Andover." To son Isaac, the house he has lived in since he married and various acreages of pasture and meadow. To son John the house he lives in, the orchard, part of the corn field next Mr. Wade's mill, and meadow, pasture and marsh. To son Nathaniel "my now dwelling house," half the orchard and barn, etc. To eldest daughter Elizabeth, 10#. To daughter Judith, 10# and my bed, bedstead, bolster, two pillows, curtains and coverlet belonging to it. To daughter Eleanor, 8#. Executors son John, wife, and son Nathaniel. Witnesses: Joseph Eveleth, Nathiel Rust Sr, Umphrey Clark. [Ref: Davis WILDES p181]



Pedigree of Reginald FOSTER
 /-----Renold FOSTER
Reginald FOSTER
 \-----Judith WIGNOL



Descendants of Reginald FOSTER
1. Reginald FOSTER m. Elizabeth DANE
m. Elizabeth DANE father: John DANE mother: Eleanor CLARK