Frances Foster

✓ DOCUMENTED: 'The Lady whom he married was MISS FRANCES FOSTER, DAUGHTER OF RICHARD FOSTER OF HAMBURGH, MERCHANT, and a relative of some of the proprietors of the eminent banking house of FOSTER, LUBBOCK AND COMPANY of London, which still exists under another name.' Wife of the Rev. NEWPORT WHITE (I81030) and MOTHER of Newport White of Kilmoylan (I81028, our line). INDEPENDENTLY CORROBORATED TWICE OVER in the same book: (a) the naming logic - the writer notes that the couple 'called their eldest son John after his father's father, and the second RICHARD after her father's father', and RICHARD FOSTER is exactly who the Hamburg father turns out to be; (b) the will of THOMAS SCAIFE of Finglas, co. Dublin, dated 10 Aug 1749, which bequeaths 'to my Kinswoman, MRS FRANCES WHITE, WIFE OF THE REVEREND NEWPORT WHITE OF KILMOYLAN, in the County of Limerick, Clerk, the sum of three hundred pounds sterling' and makes her his SOLE EXECUTRIX AND RESIDUARY LEGATEE - Scaife having married her sister. She survived her husband, who left her an annuity of £20 a year. ⚠ SPELLING: the Scaife will spells the family FORSTER ('Mrs Grace Forster now or lately of Hamburgh', 'Mrs Catherine Forster of the City of London') - Foster and Forster are the same people here. Direct ancestress. SOURCE, NOW FULLY IDENTIFIED (7 Aug 2026, from the University of Limerick Glucksman Library catalogue record, Leonard/OS/197, ulsc:3183): JOHN DAVIS WHITE, 'History of the Family of White of Limerick, Knockcentry, Cappaghwhite, Lisowen, Kilmoylan, &c., &c: with notices of their several connexions, and of the families who have descended from them, WITH COPIES OF WILLS, &c', printed at Cashel, 1887, 160 pages with a plate and portrait; dedicated to Harriet Lawless. Page images read 7 Aug 2026. THE AUTHOR: John Davis White (1820-1893) of Cashel, printer, antiquary and author of 'Cashel of the Kings' - a PROFESSIONAL ANTIQUARY, not a casual memoirist, which raises this book's standing appreciably. He was a GRANDSON of Newport White of Kilmoylan by Mary Ievers, through their youngest son Benjamin (b. c.1776), and therefore a NEPHEW of our Richard White. GRADING: strong where he transcribes wills, deeds and dates - he prints them at length and they check out; weaker on inherited family tradition, which he passes on without warrant. Graded accordingly throughout. HIS OWN STATEMENT OF METHOD, from the Preface (image ulsc:3183-11): 'As I shall set down nothing but what I believe to be true, these pages may supply useful evidence (BY THE WANT OF WHICH MONEY AND PROPERTY ARE OFTEN LOST TO THE RIGHTFUL OWNER) after I am gathered to my fathers' - and he adds that 'in after years it may, possibly, be of importance to prove the seniority of one branch of the family above another, or the connection which one party bore to another'. He understood exactly what a pedigree is for, and said so. Printed at the Author's Press, Cashel, FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY.

Marriage: Rev. Newport White (d. c.1759); his wife (mother of Newport, 1728) is not recorded in Burke's extract. Mary Ievers, formerly attached here in error, moved to @F92@ (she was the WIFE of Newport 1728, not his mother). Corrected July 2026.