Paulina's first marriage to James FOSTER

On 4 May 1852 Paulina married the boy from almost next door. (GRO ref: Driffield 9d 403) The 1851 census shows James FOSTER and family live nearby in North Street, Nafferton folio 343/4. IGI shows a James Annett FOSTER was christened 20 March 1831 in Nafferton. His father was Francis FOSTER.

Source: Free Reg

The family of James FOSTER

1841 Census Sun/Mon  6/7 June 1841
Source:   FHL Film TNA Ref HO107
          Piece: 1215; Book: 5; Folio: 26; Page: 19
Dwelling: North Street
Place:    Nafferton, York
  
Name                     Age  Occupation   Born in County
Francis Foster            40  Butcher          Yes
Abigail Foster            35                   Yes
James Foster              10                   Yes
Mary Annatt? Foster        8                   Yes
Margaret Ellenor Foster    6m                  Yes

Note: Ages are usually rounded down to the nearest five years.

On 08 March 1850 The Hull Packet and East Riding Times announced the death of Abigail on 25 February 1850, aged 42. (GRO ref: Driffield 23 29)

1811 info 2b, sheet 2

Left: Map locating North Street, Nafferton in 1854, then known as North Gate

1851 Census Sun/Mon 30/31st March 1851
Source:     FHL Film  TNA Ref H1O7
            Piece: 2366; Folio: 343; Page: 19;  Sched: 96
Dwelling:   North Street    
Place:      Nafferton, York, England

Name             Rel   Mar  Age  Occupation  Birthplace 
Francis Foster   Head   M    49  Butcher     Yorks, Nafferton
Mary Ann Foster  Wife   M    37              Lincoln, Grimsby
James Foster     Son    U    20  Butcher     Yorks, Nafferton 
Margaret Foster  Dau         12  Scholar     Yorks, Nafferton
William Foster   Son         10  Scholar     Yorks, Nafferton
Beckey Foster    Dau          7  Scholar     Yorks, Nafferton

Right: North Street Nafferton at the corner of Commercial Row 2010, showing the buildings that could have contained a butcher's shop

1811 info 2b, sheet 3

In the 1861 census there is no obvious record of Paulina and James FOSTER in a search of Nafferton's Enumeration Districts 11 and 12, suggesting they have moved. Neither is there an obvious Paulina FOSTER, born Nafferton 1837±2 or James FOSTER, born Nafferton 1831±2 in a search of Ancestry 1861 census records. This despite Paulina still being married to James FOSTER.

This is probably accounted for by the report in the Hull Packet and East Riding Times of 1857, which records a marital fracas between the Foster family and the Cromptons. It would seem that Paulina had returned to her grandmother's home and the Fosters came to get her. The resulting damage to property and the threat to Paulina resulted in costs plus fines or imprisonment.

The children of Paulina and James FOSTER

However, Paulina and James must have got together again as the couple are know to have had two children, both born after ten years of marriage and with a forename Brignell:

• Martha Amelia Brignell FOSTER was born in the second quarter of 1862 in Sculcoates. (GRO ref: Sculcoates 9d 180). She married Charles THOMAS in the first quarter of 1879 in Stockton, (GRO ref: Stockton 10a 75); and
• Madalina Rosetta Brignell FOSTER born in the fourth quarter of 1865 in Sculcoates. (GRO ref: Sculcoates 9d 149). As Rose FOSTER married Thomas COOK in the fourth quarter of 1882, at Stockton (GRO ref: Stockton 10a 90),

The death of James FOSTER

There are three possible James FOSTERs who died, in the East Yorkshire, between the date of the Hull Packet article and Paulina's marriage to Edmund Hyldon. They are:

• James Fawcett FOSTER who died in the first quarter of 1865. (GRO ref: Hull 9d 145);
• James Thomas FOSTER who died in the first quarter of 1865. (GRO ref: Hull 9d 145); and
• James FOSTER who died in the second quarter of 1865. (GRO ref: York 9d 36).

Since both his children were born in Sculcoates, Hull one of he first two is most likely.

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