Brief Life History of Grace
When Grace Foster was born on 20 May 1714, in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, David Foster, was 35 and her mother, Mary Black, was 34. She married Judah Trumble on 18 January 1732, in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She died in 1790, at the age of 76.
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- Grouco Fossor in entry for Mary Trumball, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Grace Foster, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Grace in entry for Ruth Trumble, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
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Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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