Ann# Foster

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Can't find marriage record on familysearch.
There was an Ann Foster born 10 May 1804 Horseshoe Alley, Shoreditch and chr 17 May 1807 St.Leonards, Shoreditch. Her mother was ANN and father was William.
Also an Ann Foster born 25 Dec 1807, chr 25 Jan 1808 at St.Bartholomew The Great, London. Mother = ANN and father was Benjamin.
1st slightly one more likely (reoccurence of William under both Ann and her brother).
However Stephen Griffiths marriage settlement mentions Ann Foster's marriage settlement and names a JOHN Foster, so more likely that's her fathers name .... although possibly refers to her brother ?

According to family lore (1947 letter from Cyril Griffiths to Ann G-P) she was "the illegitimate dau of some more or less obscure member of the Royal Family" , allegedly "Aunt Bell, mothers eldest sister and her senior by 20 years, knew all about it but would never give mother any facts". Some mention of a piece of silver with 'Clementina' on it ; and there being a royal of that name (Clementina Sobieska , mother of Bonnie Prince Charlie??.
"I first remember her as a widow, then living at 'Thorndene', Marlborough Road, Upper Richmond Road, Putney when she used to take me into a wonderful smelling storeroom" ...... " later on she moved, sometime around 1890 to 338 London Road, Croydon, next to the house in which my mother & father lived at that time, and there she died, aged I think 92".

1841 Census; (Indexed as Pruis) (age 30), living in South East Side of Dorking, Surrey with husband and children. NB what appears to be her brothers family are living next door.

London Gazette 12 Feb 1850; In Chancery; Between Charles FOSTER and George FOSTER Plantiffs and Mary Ann Williams, Emma Matilda Williams, and Hatton Hamer Stansfield, Defendants. Take notice that in pursuance of the liberty given by the above Order this Honourable Court will be moved before his Honour the Vice Chancellor of England, on Thursday the 21st Day of February instant, that a certain original suit in which John Foster, together with the above named plantiffs, and ANN FOSTER, all then infants, by John Simon Jessop, their next friend, were Plaintiffs and Charles Bonner and others were Defendants, and a certain supplemental suit in which the said last-named Plaintiffs were the Plaintiffs, and John Tatam, Richard Everard, and John Butters, were Defendants, and a suit by way of revivor in which the said John Foster and CHARLES HORLICK POWIS and Ann, his wife (then late ANN FOSTER), and the above named Plaintiffs were Plaintiffs, and Charles Bonner and others were Defendants, and a certain suit of revivor and supplement in which the above named Plaintiffs were the Plaintiffs, and the said Charles Bonner and others were Defendants, may stand and be revived against the said Defendants Mary Ann Williams and Emma Matilda Williams, and be put in the same plight and condition as the same were in at the time of abatement thereof. Dated this 11th day of February 1850. Yours, &c. Child and Kelly, Old Jewry Chambers, London, Plaintiffs' Solicitor. To the above named Defendants Mary Ann Williams and Emma Matilda Williams.
There are four more Gazettes about Emma Matilda Williams, all seem to be about this case but do not mention Charles or Ann, but do mention Charles and George Foster who are presumably her brothers, can't be her father as says "all then infants".

1851 Census; (Indexed on ancestry as Lowis). (age 41?) living in South Street, Dorking, Surrey with husband and children. Also mother and a servant.

1861 Census (age 55) living East St (?), Dorking with husband, 5 children, mother and 2 servants. Got maiden name from mothers name, but not v legibile - might be incorrect.

1871 Census (age 65) living in Bath(?) Road, Knowl Hill, Wargrave, Berks with husband, 4 children, grandson and 3 servants.

1881 Census (age 70??!) living in 2 Mareboro(?) Road, Putney, London with daughters Emma and Kate. Also 3 servants (shown as daughters, but obviously not). Occupation; null. This shows her birthplace as Brunswick Sq, London, Middlesex

1891 Census - (Indexed as Panis) (age 82). Widow living at 2 Mareboro(?) Road, Putney, London with son Charles and his family and 3 servants.Occupation "Living on her own means".

An Ann Powis died Q3 1900, Croydon est YoB = 1809 = match

From Wendy; Standard Sep 21 1900. POWIS on 17th inst at her residence London Road, Thornton Heath, Ann widow of Charles Horlick Powis late of Knowl Hill, Berks in her 92 year. Her address given as Thorndene, Marlborough Road, Putney. Probate granted to Katharine Isabel Griffiths (qv) widow, effects £5

Ann# married Charles Horlick# Powis, son of William# Powis and Ann# Horlick. (Charles Horlick# Powis was born in 1806 in Greenwich, Kent and died Q3 1880 in Wandsworth, London.)