Notes for: James FOSKETT
Westminster St James, Picadilly
Baptisms
25 Jul 1814 James FOSKETT son of William & Hannah
Leather seller, New Street
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Living at 4 Friars St, Blackfriars Road, in 1849
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Southwark - Bermondsey, St James
Marriages
4 May 1841 297 James FOSKETT, full, b, Leather Striper, Long Lane
William Foskett, leather striper
Margaret BLACKEE, full, sp, Long Lane,
Alexander Blackee, Pianoforte, manufactr
Wit: Jos John Vigevena, Maria Arabella Vigivena
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1841 Newington, Lambeth
HO107/1065/2/37
Great Bland St
James Foskett 25 Leather Striper Y
Margaret Foskett 20 Scotland
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1851 Southwark St George
HO107/1564?
Schedule 4 4 Friar? St
James Foskett H M 34 Leather Cutter St Anne's, Mdx
Margaret Foskett W M 30 St Anne's, Mdx
James Foskett S 6 Scholar Southwark
Plus servant
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Post Office London Directory (Small Edition) 1852
Foskett James Leather Cutter, 4 & 5, Friars St, Blackfriars Rd
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PO London Directory 1853 (Part 1)
Foskett James leather cutter 4 & 5 Friar St, Blackfriars Rd
Foskett James leather seller 2 Lower Terrace, Lower St, Islington
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1854 Fri Jan 27 Morning Chronicle
Police Yesterday - Southwark
Thomas Hallum, a well-dressed young man of highly resapectable connections, was brought before Mr a;Beckett for final examination, charged with embezzling a large amount of money belonging to his employers, Messrs Oastler and Palmer, tanners, White-grounds, Bermondsey.
Mr Lloyd of the firm Ford and Lloyd, solicitors, Bloomsbury Square, attended for the prosecution.
Margaret Foskett, the wife of James Foskett, leather dresser, No 14, Frair Street, Blackfriars Road, said her husband dealt with the prosecutors, and she managed the business at the latter address, while her husband attended to another shop in Islington. She knew the prisoner as clerk and collector to the prosecutors. On the 2d of July last she paid him £9, for which he gave her the receipt produced. On the 20th August, she paid him £58 5s. On the 1st of October she paid him £30 off a bill amounting to £66 17s 11d, and on the 8th she paid him the balance, £36 17s 11d. On the 15th she paid him £24 5s, and on the 29th December she paid him £40, in all amounting to £198 7s 11d. The prisonert signed all the bills in her presence.
Mr William Palmer, one of the prosecutors, said that the prisoner had been in their employ as clrk and collector between two and three years. It was his duty to collect orders and receive money from the customers and hand the latter over to witness or the managing clerk the same day, and enter the sums so received in a book kept for that purpose. Mr Foskett was indebted to them, according to the books, balanced up to the 29th of December, in the sum of £202 and out of that sum the prisoner had only accounted for £81 11s 5d. There was no entry of any money received on 2d July, neither had he accounted for any. On the 20th August, there was an entry for £19 out of £58 5s, which Mr Foskett owed them, and the balance, £39 5s, had not been accounted for. On the 1st October there was an entry for £20, out of the £30 the prisoner had received of Mrs Foskett, and he had not accounted for the balance. On the 8th October there was an entry of £20 out of £36 17s 11d, and the balance had never been accounted for. On the 15th October there was another entry of £18 5s received of Mrs Foskett out of £24 5s, and the balance (£6 5s) had not been accounted for. On the 29th December no entry had been made, neither had the £40 received by the prisoner that day been accounted for. On Friday last he called the prisoner into the counting-house, an dtold him he had examined the books, and ascertained a large deficiency in Mr Foskett's accounts. Witness had previously drawn up an account of those deficiencies, which he read to the prisoner, when the latter said it was quite right, he had received the money and converted it to his own use. Witness then called in a constable, and gave him into custody. When he told him that he should prosecute him, he acknowledged his fault, but begged not to be given into custody.
The positions of the witnesses being taken, and read over by the clerk, Mr a'Beckett cautioned the prisoner in the usual manner, but he declined to make a statement. He was then fully committed to trial.
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PO Directory of London 1859
Foskett James leather seller 2 Lower Terr, Lower St, Islington
35 York St, City Rd, EC
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Islington 1861 Census
RG9/138/7
2 Lower Terrace, Lower Street, Islington
James Foskett H M 46 Leather Seller St James, Westminster
Margaret Foskett W M 42 Edinburgh, Scotland
William Foskett S U 16 Asst Leather Seller St Georges Southwark
James J Foskett S U 12 Scholar St Georges Southwark
Alexander Foskett S U 9 Scholar St Georges Southwark
Robert J Foskett S U 7 Scholar St Georges Southwark
John A Foskett S U 3 Islington, Mdx
Mary A Foskett D U 1 Islington, Mdx
Jane Devine Serv U 19 Genl Servant Islington, Mdx
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PO Directory of London 1865
Foskett James leatherseller, 87 Essex Road, Islington
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Living at 93 Essex St, Islington in 1871.
Administrator of the estate of his son James John in 1878.
Died of Chronic Bronchitis and cardiac failure. Living at 93 Essex Rd, Islington at time of death.
Buried in family grave 17847 which he purchased 11 Jan 1871 for £3=3s=0d.
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19 Oct 1878 James Foskett of 93 Essex Rd, Islington, leather seller
Adm Ex: Margaret Foskett, widow Died: 13 Sep 1878
Value of Estate: £1000
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PO Directory London (Part 1: Official & Streets) 1882
Foskett James Leather Seller 93 Essex Rd, Islington
Still listed despite being deceased at this time.
PO Directory London (Part 2: Commercial) 1882
Foskett James Leather Seller 93 Essex Rd, Islington