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IN
AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE
OF

THOMAS FOSTER,
WHO DIED MAY 1ST 1886.
AGED 47 YEARS
GONE BUT NOT FORGOT.

ALSO
ELIZA,
THE BELOVED WIFE OF THE
ABOVE, AND DAUGHTER OF

JOHN & ANN THORPE,
WHO DIED MARCH 29th 1883.
AGED 48 YEARS.


Thomas Foster was the second (known) child of Robert Foster and Elizabeth Sharp. He was born in Desborough in 1839 and married Eliza Thorpe in 1859.

Eliza was born in 1835, in Desborough, the daughter of John Thorpe and Ann Moore.

Thomas and Eliza had two daughters: Emella (or Amelia) and Eliza, both born in Little Bowden.