Jesse Foat
8 Lower Street
Occupation: Greengrocer
Kentish Gazette – Tuesday 23 February 1808
Ramsgate
Jesse had taken over from his father’s Ramsgate grocer and cheesemongers business in 1808, then sometime before his first child’s birth in 1811 he moved into Deal setting up as grocer in Broad Street where he stayed for a few years before first moving to Middle Street then into 8 Lower Street where he and his family lived and worked until his death, aged just forty-three, in 1828. His wife Jane gives birth to their last child, Frederick Jesse, four months later.
Kentish Gazette – Friday 01 May 1812.
Widow Foat
Jane, as Widow Foat, is listed in the ‘Assessment on Properties in Deal’ in 1830 but she is not there in 1835. It appears, therefore, that she and her family moved back to Ramsgate between those dates as she, Frances, Henry and George are there in 1841 when that year’s census was taken.
Probate
Jesse died without leaving a will and it is not until 1867 that finances are fully sorted. Jane and her daughter Frances Susan are both named in the probate record dated March 9th 1867 in which there are £200 worth of effects left.
The site of 8 Lower Street as indicated by the arrow (before the much later loss of the shop due the road widening of Queen Street )
| Name | Born | Baptised | Married | Died | Buried |
| Jesse Foat | Abt. 1785 | Jane Wanstall 7 May 1808 St. Laurence’s, Ramsgate Born 1788 Sandwich |
19 October 1828 | 24 October 1828 St. Leonard’s |
The Children of Jesse Foat & Jane Wanstall
| Name | Born | Baptised | Married | Died | Buried |
| Frances Susan | 1811 | 12 Feb 1812 St. Leonard’s |
Unmarried | 10 June 1886 High Street, Ramsgate |
24 June 1886 St. Lawrence Thanet |
| Fredrick William | 1813 Broad Street |
21 Dec 1813 St. Leonard’s |
1815 | 7 June 1815 St. Leonard’s |
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| John Peake | 1815 Broad Street |
19 Mar 1815 St. George’s |
1815 | 16 Aug 1815 St. Leonard’s |
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| Samuel | 1817 Middle Street |
6 June 1817 St. George’s |
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| Henry Horton | 1820 Lower Street |
22 Nov 1820 St. George’s |
6 June 1904 Brixton Hill, Surrey |
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| George Charles | 1823
Lower Street |
14 Mar 1823 St. George’s |
1884 | 10 Apr 1884 St. Lawrence Thanet |
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| Thomas William | 1825 Lower Street |
9 September 1825 St. George’s |
1825 | 26 Dec 1825 St. Leonard’s |
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| Frederick Jesse | 1829 Lower Street |
6 March 1829 St. George’s |
Emma Jane Denne, 1858 Blean District | 23 February 1861 Walworth, Surrey |
Census
| Year | Address | Name | Relationship | Occupation |
| 1841 | High Street, Ramsgate | Jane | Head | Independent |
| Frances | Daughter | |||
| Henry | Son | Brewer’s Apprentice | ||
| George | Son | Carpenter’s Apprentice | ||
| Fredrick | Son |
Census
| Census | Address | Name | Relationship | Occupation |
| 1851 | 112 High Street, Ramsgate | Jane | Head | House Proprietor |
| Frances Susan | Daughter | School-mistress |
Trade and Street Directory
| Directory and Year | Trade or Occupation | Address |
| London & County Directory 1811 | Grocer | Deal |
| Pigot’s Directory 1824 | Grocer | 8 lower Street |