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[Espoir]

Thank you, Ammack, for your message. My direct family, thanks to help from Rootschat members, seems to have been in the North East of England since the 17th century, but given the number of children born to them it's more than possible that some of them went to Scotland, so maybe some distant relatives there.
Sorry I didn't reply earlier but I've  been away from this for a while

[patren]

There is a Cant Family Tree on Ancestry with a lot of info and copies of certs, which also has details of Catherine Temple.
Patricia

[Espoir]

Thank you for the information, Patricia. Sorry to be so late with the thanks but I've been away from this for some time. Thanks again.

[trish1120]

Foster may have been a bit of a "Lad"

1861 Census
Killingworth, Northumberland
RG9/3845/109/20
Foster CANT, 49, Head, Widower, Ag Lab, born St John Lee
Foster Cant, 15, Son, born Bywell St Peter
John Cant, 11, Son, born Bywell St Peter
Isabella Cant, 25, Daug in Law, Widow
Thomas BOYD, 18, Stepson
William Boyd, 14, Stepson
Richard Boyd, 11, Stepson
Mary Boyd, 3, Step Grand/Daug

Marriage Familysearch.Org;
Foster CANT age 43 (1813) to Isabella BOYD age 42 ( 1814),    20 Dec 1856, Gateshead, Durham.

1871 Census
Robins Row
Killingworth, Northumberland
RG10/5126/28/2
Foster CANT, 58, Head, Mar, Ag Lab
Isabella, 36, Wife, Mar
John, 21, Son, Unm, Colliery Lab
Isabella, 3, Daug
All born Northd

Marriage from Familysearch.Org;
Foster CANT age 52 (1814) to Isabella CANT age 36 (1830), 01 April 1866, Gateshead, Durham

1851 under GAUNT;
Styford, Northumberland
Forster Gaunt, 38, Head, Widower, Ag Lab
Archibald, 15, Son, Ag Lab
Jane, 12, Daug
Forster, 6, Son
Margaret LAMBERT, 45, Servant, Widow, Domestic Servant
HO107/2414/257/12

1841 Census
Warden, Northumberland
HO107/843/11/Warden
Forster CANT, 45, Ag Lab
Ann, 25
Isaac, 11
Isabella, 8
Archbald, 6
Jane, 2
Ages for Foster/Ann are hard to make out

Marriage from FreeREG;
25 Sept 1830, Haydon Bridge-St Cuthbert T, Warden, Northumberland
Forster CANT
Ann MITCHELLSON
Witnesses, Elizb and Thos STOBART and James CANT

[trish1120]

BURIALS;
ANN Cant, 15 Aug 1849, St Anndrew, Byswell, age 37, abode Styford
ISABELLA Cant, 16 Sept 1849, same Church, age 16, abode Styford
Mother and Daug I presume.
(Source FreeREG)

Christening Familysearch.Org;
Foster CANT, 27 September 1812, LEE SAINT JOHN, NORTHUMBERLAND, ENGLAND
Father THOMAS Cant

[trish1120]

BURIAL;
Isabella CANT, 18 May 1854, Haydon Bridge-St Cuthbert B, Warden, age 88,
abode Plankey Parish of Haltwhistle
(FreeREG)

1851 Census she is born c 1766 Ovingham. Living with Daug Eleanor now Mrs REED
(Eleanor STOBART married Robert REED 11 Jan 1817 Bywell (FreeREG)

A Tree has Thomas CANT Marrying Isabella STOBART, Widow, 1799
(Marriage on F/S, 14 Nov 1799, Lee Saint John, Northumberland,England)

Marriage to John STOBART of Isabella FORSTER 19 Oct 1788 Ponteland

Looks like that where the Forster comes from
(It also explains the Stobart Witnesses on Forster Cants Marriage in 1830)

Children from Tree of JOHN/ISABELLA Stodart;
THOMAS 1789
JOHN 1791
ELIZABETH 1792
ELEANOR 1795
ROBERT 1797

Children of  THOMAS/ISABELLA Cant;
THOMAS 1800-1803
ISABELLA 1802
JAMES 1804 (maybe other Witness at 1830 Marriage)
MARY 1807
FORSTER 1812

[steadyrollingman]

Little bit late to the party here (am in Search mode) but where / is there a Fowl Hall in NBL (transcribed place of birth for Charles in 1911 census)? According to the 1939 Reg, he was born in Sep 1901, just a few months after the 1901 census has them in Longbenton.

Seems to me they stopped baptising their kids after Thomas in Gosforth, 1899, so it's a bit harder to track their places of abode down. And they moved round A LOT.

Here's a pic of Kate Temple (my GG Aunty) I nicked off Ancestry btw

Edit to add: Never heard of James being a freemason, but checked on Ancestry - first result is for a Gentleman living in Gateshead 1902, but he's about 20 years too old. But other one is for a 36-year-old  manager living in the Cloth Market in 1907. At the end of the entry below is 'died 21/12/1909' - but this is at the end of a double-page spread where you can lose track of which line you're on and this is definitely the date that James died.

[Gen List Lass]

Charles Temple Cant was born at Forest Hall NBL. 1911 census. He was in the Northern Counties Orphanage, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne

GRO entry:
   CANT, CHARLES  TEMPLE     mothers maiden name TEMPLE 
GRO Reference: 1901  D Quarter in TYNEMOUTH  Volume 10B  Page 270

Baptised at St Johns Killingworth:
1901   Charles Temple   son of James and Catherine    CANT   born 6/9/1901   baptised Oct 1st 1901   of Nicholson’ Terrace    cartman

Gen in NBL England