Notes for: John FOSKETT
1851 Living in Stewkeley, Bucks with wife and cousin Sarah.
1851 Stewkley Pt.2
John FOSKETT HD M M 26 Farm Lab. Hogston
Martha FOSKETT WI F M 38 House Domestic Work Whaddon
Sarah FOSKETT CO F U 14 Domestic Work Hogston
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1863 Wed Dec 16 The Derby Mercury
Incendiary Fire
Mr Robert Archer, of the Lodge Farm, near Ashborne, some three years since took a large farm in Cheshire which the Crown had then recently reclaimed from the ancient forest of Delamere. The peasantry residing on the confines of the forest resented this as an infringement of their suppositious forest rights, and they have on several occasions uttered threats against Mr Archer's resident farm bailiff, and other servants. These threats culminated in a murderous assault on the bailiff, John Foskett, and a labourer named Thomas Dean, by three men residing in the neighbourhood. Foskett's left arm was broken and Dean's skull fractured. The men absconded, but the Cheshire police succeeded in apprehending Willingshaw, and he was accordingly taken before Thomas Woodhouse, Esq, on the after noon of 30th November, and remanded for further hearing. On the morning of the 1st of December, Foskett, the bailiff, was awakened about half-past four in the morning by observing a strong light in the stackyard; he alarmed the other servants, and they found that three stacks were on fire, one being fired in two places.
The engines of the Bridgewater Trustees quickly attended, but the flames had gained such an ascendancy that thirteen stacks, containing the produce of 120 acres, were totally destroyed. The adjoining farm buildings were saved by the exertions of the fireman, though the brickwork of a shed was at one time red hot; the damage sustained is estimated between 1300L and 1400L. Mr Archer is, we believe, insured in the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Fire Office for about one half of that amount.
On Saturday, Mr Brittlebank, solicitor of Ashborne, attended before the Cheshire magistrates to prosecute Thomas Willingshaw for the assault on Foskett, and he was committed to Chester Castle for trial at the March Assizes.
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1871 Kingswood
RG10/3693/137 Page 2
Schedule 9 Honoslough Farm
John Foskett H M 45 Bailiff Hogston, BKM
Martha Foskett W M 58 Bailiff's wife Waddon, BKM
Charles Harding Serv U 22 Farm Servant Dunton, BKM
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Directory and Gazetteer of Cheshire with Stalybridge 1874
Foskett John Farmer, Cuddington, Cheshire
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Living in Cilcan, Flintshire in 1881
Dwelling Pen Y Gelli Farm
Census Place Cilcen - Llysdanhunedd, Flint, Wales
PRO RG11/5509 / 104
Page Number 5
John FOSKETT Head M M 55 BKM Farmer
Martha FOSKETT Wife M F 68 BKM Farmer Wife
George KNIGHT Ser U M 15 BKM Farmer Servant (Indoor)
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1891 Holywell, Flint
RG12/4606/53
Schedule 67 Castill Noble
John Foskett H M 65 Farmer Hogston, BKM
Martha Foskett W M 78 Whaddon, BKM
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1901 Halkyn, Flintshire
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Schedule 7 Gweeny-Gwydden
John Foskett H M 75 Retired Farm Lab Hogston, Bkm
Martha Foskett W M 88 Waddon, Bkm
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Address at burial in 1902 given as The Nant, Coleshill, Fawr