Person:Robert Foley (2)

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Robert Foley
chr.19 Sep 1624 Dudley, Worcestershire, England
bur.1 Dec 1676
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  1. Anne Foley1611 -
  2. Edward Foley1613 - Abt 1622
  3. Priscilla Foley1615 - 1687
  4. Thomas Foley1617 - 1677
  5. Honor Foley1619 -
  6. Margaret Foley1622 -
  7. Robert Foley1624 - 1676
  8. Samuel Foley1626 - Abt 1678
  9. Sarah Foley1629 -
  10. John Foley1631 -
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Robert Foley1624 - 1676
  • W.  Anne Blurton (add)
m. 1645
  1. Robert FoleyAbt 1651 - 1702
  2. Anne Foley
  3. Honor Foley
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Facts and Events
Name Robert Foley
Gender Male
Baptism[1][2] 19 Sep 1624 Dudley, Worcestershire, EnglandSaint Thomas
Marriage 1645 to Anne Blurton (add)
Marriage to Elizabeth Smith
Burial[1] 1 Dec 1676
Reference Number? Q7344413?


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Robert Foley (baptised 19 September 1624; buried 1 December 1676) of Stourbridge was a son of Richard Foley, the most important ironmaster of his time in the west Midlands, by his second marriage (to Alice Brindley).

In contrast with other members of the family who became ironmasters, Robert Foley became an ironmonger, that is, a person who organises the manufacture of finished ironware and sells it. In doing so he may have been taking over that aspect of his father's business, just as his older brother Thomas Foley had taken over their father's ironworks. Shortly after the English Restoration, Foley obtained a contract from the Navy Board to supply ironware to several dockyards.

His house at Stourbridge and estate at Netherton in Dudley were given him by his father. He probably mined coal in his land at Yorks Park, near Netherton around 1660, but left others to extend mines into neighbouring land. However he bought the manor of Kenswick in Knightwick himself in 1669.

He was High Sheriff of Worcestershire in 1671. He married first Anne Blurton in 1645 and was succeeded by his son, another Robert Foley. He married second Elizabeth Duppa.

Foley died on a business trip. He traveled from his home in Stourbridge to Bristol and then to London, where he died at his inn.

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References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Robert Foley (ironmonger), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2. ↑ England. Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. (FamilySearch, Ancestry.com, Findmypast)
    (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/J932-VP1 : accessed 16 Dec 2013), Roberte Foley, 19 Sep 1624.
  3.   Metcalfe, Walter C. (Walter Charles). The visitation of the county of Worcester, begun by Thomas May, Chester and Gregory King in Trinity Vacacon, 1682, and finished...1683... (Exeter: W. Pollard, 1883)
    p. 46.
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