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Author: CantM
Surnames: Cant
Classification: queries
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I have just started to investigate my family history and came across your message. Your
great grandfather Foster Cant must be my great grandfather, born in Kirkwhelpington on
January 13th, 1845 and died in Newcastle on November 4th, 1927. His father was also
Foster Cant, born in Acombe, Northumberland in 1812 and died in Tynemouth in 1886 and his
mother was Isabella Boyd born in Longbenton in 1812 and died in Northumberland in 1860.
This is information I received from a member of another forum, which included the story of
Foster and Jane, John Campbell and Elizabeth Snowden and the marriage of Foster and
Elizabeth after the death of Jane in childbirth and of John in a mining accident. My
grandfather was one of the sons of Foster and Jane, so your grandfather and mine must have
been brothers or halfbrothers. Margaret née Cant
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