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- Title: Joe Forster, "The Fighting Forsters, Fosters", copy in libr
ary of Society of Genealogists in London, England and my copy now owned by Dan Brock [danbrock40@sympatico.ca]. Typed Manuscript, 1983. On an introductory page, Mr. Forster writes: "In compiling this family history I must acknowledge the great help I received from the following: - the staffs of the Harris Library, Preston, the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, and the Libraries of Newcastle and Durham, and particularly the staffs of the Public Record Offices at Gosforth and Durham. My thanks to the late Norman Walton of Gateshead, to Frank Vaughan of Wembley, to A. Poole of Wimbleton, to Bob Forster of Plymouth, to Mrs. Willis of Durham, to A.W. Rolfe of London, to Ann Power of South Shields, to Brian Bacon of Queensland, to Mrs. J. Weisenberg, nee Forster, of California, and to Paul Purvis, a fellow Dunelmian, and his cheerful staff at Prontaprint, Preston. . . .The following books are some of the sources used in compiling the family history . . . : - 'Callendar of Border Papers' by Jos. Baines; 'Complete Peerage'; 'Chronicles of Stephen Foster's Family' by E.F. Mornewerek; Catholic Record Society Vols; 'Coaching in the North Country' by M. Jamison; "Dorothy Forster' by Besant; 'Dorothy' by J. Bird; Durham & Northumberland Wills, Surtees Society . . . ; 'Border History' by Ridpath; Burke's 'Landed Gentry'; 'Foster's of Cold Hesledon' by Joseph Foster; 'Aldermaston' by W. Money; 'Foster-Barham Genealogy' by F. Foster-Barham; 'Epistolarium Forsterianum' by Dr. T. Forster; Heralds Visitations, Northern Counties, and Berks; 'History of Northumberland' by Rev. J. Hodgson; 'History of Durham' by Surtees; 'History of Corbridge' by R. H. Forster; 'History of Newton Cap' by Surtees; 'History & Antiquities of North Durham' by Rev. J. Raine; 'Life of W. E. Forster' by T. W. Reid; Memoirs of Robert Carey; 'Men of Mark Twixt Tyne & Tweed' by R. Welford; 'North Country Sketches' by Neasham; 'The Steel Bonnets' by G. M. Fraser . . . ; 'Yorkshire Catholics' by Peacock; publications of the North-east Catholic History Society. The Manuscript of Dr. Ann Forster, and the Bell Collection, are both deposited at the Northumberland Record Office, Melton Park, Gosforth, Newcastle."
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