Foster, William Henry

William Henry Foster, 1832-1894




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Life Events


Born:25 April 1832Sale Priory, Trafford, Manchester, Lancashire, England [01].
Baptised:13 June 1832Sale Priory, Trafford, Manchester, Lancashire, England [parents' residence] [02].
Arrived:23 January 1852Melbourne, Colony of Victoria, on the ship Medway. Departed London, 27 September 1851, via Plymouth [03] [04] [05].
Married:2 September 1858Ballarat, Colony of Victoria to Catherine McLean Paterson [1836-1895] [06] [07].
Died:18 March 189488 Neil Street, Soldiers Hill, Ballarat, Colony of Victoria [residence], aged 61 years [08] [09].
Buried:20 March 1894Ballarat Old Cemetery, Ballarat, Colony of Victoria [Grave: Church of England E, Secton 02, No 0014/0015] [10] [11].

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William Henry Foster [12]

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Notes

Notes
01 Date from Public Service lists and Baptism. See also Tim Gatehouse in Further Reading. Gatehouse also states that Foster's name was William Henry Bagshawe Foster.
02 England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1936 [Ancestry (Membership required) 10 January 2024]. This register says that Foster was baptised at his parents' home by the Moravian Church. It is separately listed as the Fairfield United Brethren (Moravian) Church, Fairfield, Droylsden, Lancashire, England.
03 Shipping Intelligence - Arrived; The Argus (Melbourne), 24 January 1852, p 2 [Trove, 21 April 2023].
04 Marten A Syme; Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Victorian Ports, Volume 2 1846-1855; Roebuck Society, Canberra, 1987; p 92.
05 Medway Passenger List, Public Record Office of Victoria, VPRS 947 [ 25 April 2023].
06 Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Marriage Index M1858-002841.
07 Marriages - Foster-Paterson; The Argus (Melbourne), 15 September 1858, p 5 [Trove, 10 January 2024].
08 Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Death Index D1894-000320.
09 Deaths - Foster; The Argus (Melbourne), 19 March 1894, p 1 [Trove, 14 April 1823].
10 Ballarat Cemeteries Record Search [ 14 April 2023].
11 Funeral Notices - Foster; The Argus (Melbourne), 19 March 1894, p 1 [Trove, 14 April 1823].
12 Please contact me if you are the owner of this image or have a better quality version.

Further Reading

Biography:Dorothy Leopold; With A Letter To Mr La Trobe: The Life of W H Foster, 1852-1894; Dorothy Leopold, 1988.
Biography:Dorothy Leopold; Catty and the Magistrate; Martini Publishing, 1998.
Profile:Tim Gatehouse; The Foster Family and its La Trobe Connections; in: La Trobeana, Volume 18, No 2 (July 2019), pp 35-43.
Profile:Tim Gatehouse; The Life of William Henry Foster in Victoria; in: La Trobeana, Volume 18, No 3 (November 2019), pp 27-35.

Updates

2024-10-13Page formatting revised.
2024-01-10Life Events updated and references added. Further reading added.