Richard Foster

✓ DOCUMENTED: RICHARD FOSTER, OF HAMBURGH, MERCHANT; father of Frances (I100375, our line). His family were 'a relative of some of the proprietors of the eminent banking house of Foster, Lubbock and Company of London' - i.e. the house that became Robarts, Lubbock & Co. and was eventually absorbed into Coutts. A GENUINELY NEW DIRECTION FOR THIS TREE: an English merchant family trading out of HAMBURG, with London banking connections and members still there in 1749 (Thomas Scaife's will names 'Mrs Grace Forster, now or lately of Hamburgh' and 'Mrs Catherine Forster of the City of London, Spinster'). The English Merchant Adventurers' Hamburg factory records and the London banking histories are the tests. ⚠ Also to be reconciled: Scaife's will names nieces surnamed REDMAN of Kendal in Westmorland - if that is the Forster kin network, it points at the Forsters of the North of England. END OF LINE as entered. 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.