When William Foster was born before 2 August 1805, in Barrowden, Rutland, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Foster, was 34 and his mother, Mary Woods, was 31. He died before 16 August 1805, in his hometown, and was buried in Barrowden, Rutland, England.
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Athelstan, king of Wessex and Mercia, formed the Kingdom of England.
Viking raiders from Scandinavia invaded England in 980. Years later in 991, the English government paid them 10,000 in hopes for peace. The Viking raiders, however, continued to force more money from England.
English: variant of Forster ‘worker in a forest’.
English: perhaps a nickname from Middle English foster ‘foster parent’ (Old English fōstre, a derivative of fōstrian ‘to nourish or rear’). But other explanations are equally or more likely.
English: from Old French forcetier ‘maker of scissors’; see Forster 2.
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