Our Family History

Welcome! Last update 14 Feb 2025

Communication is a "Two Way Street", so is family research.

After looking through these pages, do you have anything that you could add or correct?

Portions of this tree now cover direct links from the current time to around 550 AD.

There are now over 14000 names in the database and growing all the time. If you find any errors or have questions, please ask or advise, thank you.

My full range of DNA tested data is:

Y-DNA Haplogroup R-Z8

mtDNA H1b1-T16362C

Alternatively, you can visit the FtDNA pages at: https://www.familytreedna.com/

Searching for all Foster links in Lincolnshire (New Sleaford), Talbot links in Suffolk (Great Thurlow). Harvey - Hervey and permutations in Cornwall.

My Foster links take me back to William Foster b1754 (Lincolnshire).

The son of William Foster (b1754), William Foster (b1790 Lincolnshire), married on 31 July 1821 (New Sleaford, Lincolnshire) to Sarah Tomblin

(There are many surname variations such as Tomlin, Tamlin, Tamblin, Tomblan ).

The known children from the marriage of William Foster and Sarah Tomblin are:

William (b1823),
Thomas (b1826),
John (b1829),
Francis (b1834),
Tomblin (b1836) and
Sarah (b1838).

Family anecdotal history has two more daughters in this family but this is not as yet confirmed.

Son, Thomas Foster (b1826) (Holdingham, Linc), married Anne Jenkinson 27 June 1847 in New Sleaford and of their known 11 children, William (b19 July 1848), was born in Lincolnshire (New Sleaford) prior to emigrating to Australia.

Foster surname / family name variations such as Forestarius, Forrester, Forester & Forster exist and are prominent in the early parts of this research



The Talbot family group line ends with John Talbot (Torbert) b 22 Aug 1778, Great Thurlow, Suffolk, son of John Talbot (Snr.)(b1755 - d1790)) and Sarah Bowyer (b1750-d1824) who were married on 13 Oct 1775 in Great Thurlow, Suffolk.

There were three confirmed sons of this union:,
Samuel Talbot,
John Talbot &
Henry Talbot.
William Talbot (b1780) seems to be also a child of this marriage according to one registrar and yet to be confirmed.

John Torbert / Talbot (Snr) appears out of the mists of history past and into the Great Thurlow landscape with no discernible trail, family or history.

Did he come from an adjoining Shire or County?

Did he make the great trek from across the other side of England somewhere?

Is he just the first recorded Talbot in Thurlow from a long line of unlisted and unrecorded family due potentially to collective illiteracy and thus no records?

Are the records for this family amongst some of the many that have vanished for all time due to lack of care, accident or are yet to be unearthed by some skilful researcher?

These questions have been asked for nigh on 40 years without a satisfactory answer!!!



The Talbot spelling variations include: Talbot , Talbott , Talbut , Talbart , Talbert , Torbert , Tubert , Taulbert , Taulbut , Tobutt , Tobitt and almost countless variations of the above.

These are the current areas of research and where the proverbial "Brick Walls" are.



"Carl Friedrich Louis Honig" (b 13 Oct 1813 - Hanover?)
Immigrated to Australia on the ship, Herder in 1851.
He came to Australia with two daughters and one son but the shipping documents state:
"Wife did not Sail"

From previous research, the databases of the Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) State archives have the following family.

Carl Friedrich Louis Hinig (Honig), 37 1/2 y. old, miner from Wildemann* emigated via Bremen to Port Adelaide in 1851 on board the sailing ship Herder (Captain Von Hagen) which left Bremen on June 4, 1851 and arrived in Port Adelaide on September 21, 1851

He emigrated with three children, namely:
Auguste Amalie Honig b August 2, 1836
Dorothea Juliane Honig b June 27, 1838, and
Georg Friedrich Ernst Honig b January 30, 1841

His wife, Marie Sophie Elisabeth Auguste Steinbrueck stayed behind as he had been separated from his wife.

This data was extracted from the record of the “Oberbergamt" Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Fach 154.

The record about the emigration of Carl Friedrich Louis Honig and his three children is located in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, a branch archive of the Hannover State Archive



Full DNA testing has been completed for Ian Talbot Foster:

MtDNA = H1b1-T16362C

yDNA Haplogroup = R-Z8

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