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Frances P Foaker and William Docking
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Robert Foker was born in Snettisham in 1824 and baptised there on 6 June. He had been living at Paper Hall Farm with his family when he married Susan Ford at Snettisham Parish Church on 6 February 1846. She was daughter of sailor Robert Ford from Burnham Overy. Daughter Mary Ann was born in 1849, then according to the census of 1851, he had become a Sawyer and his mother Frances was living with them. Son William Robert was born just over two weeks after the census was taken but he only survived for four years. William John was born in 1853 then Francis Richard in 1856 but he died in 1859. Sarah Elizabeth was born in 1860. The census of 1861 shows the family living in Lynn Road in Snettisham. Son Richard James was born in 1863, daughter Annie Elizabeth in 1867 and finally son Arthur Ford in 1870. The census of 1871 shows that they still lived in Lynn Road but Robert's occupation was now given as a Dealer. Sadly, both Annie Elizabeth and Arthur Ford died in 1872. By 1873 Robert had become a shopkeeper. The census of 1881 shows him as the keeper of the Sweetshop in Snettisham and grandson William, one of the twins of son William John, was living with them and had become part if their family. Susan passed away in 1887. In 1891 Robert's shop was now a Greengrocer and he had son James and grandson William living with him. Kelly's Directory of 1900 listed Robert as a Shopkeeper but the census of 1901 shows that he had given up and was living in Main Road, Snettisham with his son Richard and daughter-in-law Emily and that grandson William was also there. William was actually described on the census as brother to James. Robert passed away in 1806 at the age of 86.
William Docking Foker was born in Snettisham about 1827. By 1851 he had left his family home and was a Mariner living in Bridge Street in Kings Lynn as a lodger in the home of Sarah Giles. In 1854 he married Sarah's daughter Susannah. It is believed that William died aboard the ship Alice on 28 May 1860 without having any children. The census of 1861 shows Susannah as a Nurse in the household of Dorset born merchant William T Cheeseman in Church Street, Stranton, West Hartlepool. Susannah bore three children born between 1863 and 1868, Emma Astaler Flood Jane, Alice Gertude and Edward Walter. Their father would appear to have been John Fysh whom she married at the Weslyan Methodist Chapel in Howard Street, Tynemouth, Northumberland in 1871. The census of 1871 shows her as a Sailors wife living with her children in Grey Street, North Shields in Northumberland. John was probably at sea when the census was taken. In 1881 the census shows her occupation as a Seamstress and her address as 4 All Saints Street in Kings Lynn where she had a boarder called Thomas Joy. All her children were still at home with her. Susannah died in Kings Lynn in 1882. John died at sea in April 1908 whilst aboard the ship Montrial.
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