1st wife of Reynold Foster, of Harlow

Renold (Reynold) Foster made his will in 1622, naming his grown son Reynold.

notes

Reynald Foster of Harlow, whose will was made 18 Sep 1622 and proved 7 Jan 1622/3[7], mentions therein the Great Mead which proves him to be the son of John whose will is abstracted above.  He left to his wife Margaret and son William the messuage where I dwell in Harlow with the free and copy lands there for ten years, thereafter to wife Margaret and son Reynold for Margaret’s life.  If Margaret remarried, the ten years occupancy was to go to his son William with a remainder to Reynold forever, but subject to a payment of £40 to his son Peter.  Otherwise Peter was to have the Great Mead and the Little Mead.  To his daughter [torn – Elizabeth?], £20.  He left all movables to his wife Margaret, but, if she remarry, two-thirds of them to his youngest children, Elizabeth, William and Peter.  To Jane and Sara, daughters of his daughter Jane, 40s. To son-in-law John Clay, his best wearing apparel.  Executors: wife Margaret, son William. Witnesses: George Parker, George Harrison, Reynold Foster Jr.[8] 

It would seem that Margaret Foster was Renald Foster’s second wife and mother of the youngest children, and probably she was that Margaret Humphrey who married “Renold Foster” in 1608 in Thaxted, County Essex, some fifteen miles north of Harlow.

Ref

• Davis, Walter Goodwin, "Renold Foster," The American Genealogist 18, 1941, 13-15.

Links

• http://www.treetreetree.org.uk/Foster.htm
• http://hylbom.com/family/paternal-lines/paternal-dy-to-gi/foster-2576/