When Humphey Foster was christened on 10 February 1560, in Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, England, his father, Sir Thomas Forster, was 31 and his mother, Lady Margaret Browning, was 32. He had at least 3 sons and 5 daughters.
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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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