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Anne ? (ca. 1750–1800)

Candidate mother lane for Jane Foulkes. Maiden surname and relationship not proved; the exact-date Liverpool Jane baptism does not name her mother.

Best Evidence

1. Open

   The Liverpool Jane baptism does not name a mother, so it cannot by itself identify Anne.

2. Possible

   Anne Thomas is supported by the Llanrhos marriage and the 1781 Mary Foulkes baptism, but Jane's 1778 date predates that marriage.

3. Possible

   Anne Lloyd is supported by a strong Shrewsbury name/place match, but the 1748 marriage is chronologically early.

4. Possible

   Chester / Handbridge remains the inherited Geneanet geography for Anne, but it has not yet produced a direct original record or a mother bridge to Jane.

Next Targets

1. OpenInspect the original Liverpool register image to confirm whether mothers are normally omitted.
2. OpenSearch Llanrhos baptisms 1777–1782 for Jane Foulkes / Jane Thomas and sibling entries.
3. OpenOrder the St Chad 1748 licence allegation / bond.
4. OpenSearch Chester St Mary-on-the-Hill and Handbridge records for Anne's baptism and burial.

Evidence Log

St Mary's and Handbridge — the same corner of Chester

Both places recorded for Anne sit in the city of Chester, Cheshire:

• St. Mary's Parish (St Mary-on-the-Hill) is inside the Roman city walls, just south of Chester Castle. In the 18th century its parish registers covered the south-central part of the old walled city.
• Handbridge is the suburb immediately across the River Dee from the walled city, historically part of the parish of St Mary-on-the-Hill until the 19th century.

In other words, Anne was born and died in what was effectively the same parish — she appears to have lived her whole life in the Chester / Handbridge area.

Implications for the wider family

With Anne tentatively linked to Chester/Handbridge and Thomas Foulkes dying at Shrewsbury, Jane's reported "Wales" birthplace of 1778 points to a north-Wales / border-world search. The Liverpool baptism candidate complicates that geography: if it is our Jane, the mother is still unnamed, and the family may have moved through Liverpool as well as north Wales.

Llanrhos candidate maiden surname — Thomas

A May 2026 user-supplied parish-register transcript gives a baptism at St Hilary, Llan-rhos, Caernarfonshire: Mary Foulkes, daughter of Thomas and Anne Foulkes, baptized 25 December 1781. A separate St Hilary marriage index gives the likely matching marriage in the same parish: Thomas Foulkes of Llanrhos married Anne Thomas on 31 July 1780.

This remains a strong candidate cluster because it places a Thomas + Anne Foulkes household in north Wales close to Jane's reported 1778 birth date. The unresolved problem is chronology: Jane's 11 February 1778 birth predates the 1780 marriage, and the new Liverpool record may be Jane's own baptism. Anne Thomas should therefore stay as a live candidate, not a proved mother.

Earlier candidate maiden surname — Lloyd

A May 2026 user-supplied online parish-register transcript gives a highly relevant marriage at St Chad, Shrewsbury: Thos. Foulkes married Anne Lloyd on 28 April 1748, by licence. The locality is strong: St Chad is also the leading candidate parish for Thomas Foulkes's 1816 Shrewsbury burial. The surname is also attractive in context, since Lloyd is strongly Welsh-border.

The problem is chronology. A 1748 marriage is too early for the current Geneanet estimate that Anne was born ca. 1750, and the Llanrhos 1780–1781 cluster now gives a more age-plausible Thomas + Anne family. Anne Lloyd should therefore stay as an earlier-generation candidate unless the St Chad licence allegation / bond proves otherwise.

Best short-path lookups (April 2026)

The April 2026 Foulkes deep-search pass (raw/foulkes-deep-search-2026-04.md) ranked the routes into Anne's line by tractability:

1. Original St Peter Liverpool baptism image for Jane Foulkes, 1778 — now the highest-value lookup. It may show whether the register normally omits mothers and may clarify Thomas's occupation and abode.
2. Llanrhos St Hilary baptisms, 1777–1782 — search for Jane Foulkes / Jane Thomas and any other children of Thomas + Anne Foulkes.
3. Original 31 Jul 1780 Llanrhos marriage entry — check witnesses, marital status, residence, and signatures for Thomas Foulkes + Anne Thomas.
4. Marriage licence allegation / bond for Thos. Foulkes + Anne Lloyd, St Chad, Shrewsbury, 28 Apr 1748 — still relevant, but probably earlier-generation unless it connects forward to the Llanrhos family.
5. Anne's baptism ca. 1750 at St Mary-on-the-Hill — same collection, narrows candidates by birth-date + forename.
6. Anne's burial 1800 at Handbridge / St Mary-on-the-Hill — same collection. A burial register entry of 1800 may record her as "Anne Foulkes wife of Thomas Foulkes of [place]" and could incidentally reveal Thomas's Welsh or Shropshire residence before his 1816 Shrewsbury death.

All three are subscription-gated on Ancestry; Cheshire Archives also operate a paid lookup service. FreeREG has partial Cheshire coverage but no Chester St Mary-on-the-Hill marriages in the 1770s at the time of the April 2026 pass.

Open questions

• Maiden surname and relationship. Still unresolved. The exact-date Liverpool baptism does not name Jane's mother; Anne Thomas and Anne Lloyd remain candidates in different clusters, and neither is proved as Jane's mother.
• Did Anne's family also migrate to Shrewsbury with Thomas, or did Thomas remarry / travel there after her 1800 death? A Shrewsbury 1801–1816 residency gap could be filled by directory entries (Holden's, Pigot's, Tibnam's directories for Shrewsbury).
• Was Anne's maiden family Welsh / Welsh-border, explaining Jane's "Wales" 1778 birth? Or was she a Chester-born Englishwoman with Thomas doing the Welsh-side business?
• Any siblings of Jane not recorded on the Geneanet profile? (Roche 1998 independently names four children for Thomas McKenna + Jane Foulkes — but that is the next-generation family, not Anne's.)

Primary source: Geneanet public tree "peterterren". Verbatim copy at ../raw/geneanet-peterterren-anne-foulkes.md. April 2026 deep-search pass: ../raw/foulkes-deep-search-2026-04.md. Exact-date Liverpool baptism candidate: ../raw/jane-foulkes-liverpool-st-peter-baptism-1778-2026-05.md. New Llanrhos family-cluster lead: ../raw/mary-foulkes-llanrhos-baptism-1781-2026-05.md. New 1748 St Chad marriage candidate: ../raw/thomas-foulkes-anne-lloyd-st-chad-marriage-1748-2026-05.md. Current Mary/Jane/Fowke/Foulkes recheck: ../raw/evidence/current-web-mary-jane-father-recheck-2026-06-01.md.