Foster Branch - Family History

The story of a coach painter's four sons, the gun-making streets of Elswick, and the war that took one of them In Plot 3 of Tezze British Cemetery, a short way from the River Piave in north-east Italy, lies a Newcastle soldier who never came home. Lance Corporal Thomas Eglon of the 11th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, died on 27 October 1918, aged 32. He was the eldest of four brothers who grew up in the same terraced house in Elswick, and all four of them served in the

Some ancestors arrive in the records neatly labelled. Others come with a puzzle attached. My great-grandfather Fred Foster began life with a different surname altogether. He was born Frederick Allenby, the son of a man who, for now, has all but vanished from the paper trail. The story of how Frederick Allenby became Fred Foster is really the story of the women who raised him, and of a family that was hit again and again by loss yet kept going. A birth in Darlington Frederick