Possibly an English habitational name from Forston, a place in
Dorset, recorded in 1236 as Fosardeston ‘estate (tun)
of the Forsard family’; a family which was there from the early 13th
century.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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