When Jonah Foster was born in 1844, in Willenhall, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, George Foster, was 35 and his mother, Sarah Smith, was 32. He married Annie Dunn on 30 October 1870, in Battle Bridge, London, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in London, England in 1901 and Hackney, London, England, United Kingdom in 1901. He died in 1918, in Islington, London, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 74.
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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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