Forster Family History
Forster Name Meaning
English: occupational and topographic name for someone who
lived or worked in a forest (see Forrest).English: Norman
French nickname or occupational name from Old French forcetier
‘cutter’, an agent noun from forcettes ‘scissors’.English:
occupational name, by metathesis, from Old French fust(r)ier
‘blockmaker’ (a derivative of fustre ‘block of wood’).German (Förster): occupational and topographic name for
someone who lived and worked in a forest (see Forst).Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Forst
‘forest’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Forster
Name Distribution of Forster Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Forster families
 121 - 239  41 - 120 |
 1 - 40  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Forster families
|
1,361 - 2,719 454 - 1,360 |
1 - 453 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Forster families
|
15 - 27 6 - 14 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Forster Family Origin
Forster Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Forster
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Forster Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Forster Civil War Service Records
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