‘I have inherited a copy of a privately printed book of family geneaology of the descendants of Roger Foster of Edreston, published in 1897. This book traces the family names of Foster and Foster-Barham from a common ancestor, Roger Foster who was the second of twenty-one sons of Thomas Forster of Edreston and his wife Elizabeth Featherstonhaugh who fled Northumberland in the 15th century.I am happy to share any info with interested family researchers. Deborah.’762

‘according to "Burke's Landed Gentry" Vol II, Roger Forster is the ancestor of the family of Forster of Jamaica, Egham, and Kempstone, and from these the families of Foster-Barham and Foster of Brickhill House are descended.’763