My paternal grandfather died long before I was born. actually my father was about 9 years old,(1932) He knows very little about his father, and this is the reason why.
John Thomas Foster was born sometime around 1871-5, we have no idea where. ?Possibly West Ham area, though none of the census' confirm this. He was a Marine, but due to a misdemeanour (I believe he struck a fellow Marine) he was "drummed out" . As this was a disgrace, particularly in Victorian England, his family disowned him. He married my grandmother in 1916. The marriage certificate states that his occupation at that time was "labourer" and he was living in West Ham. His father is listed as John Thomas Foster too. That is almost all I know of him.
Is it possible to trace someone who was dismissed from the services for such a misdemeanour? I would so like to trace his family, for my father's sake as well as my own.
Can anyone help please? Sandra
