Brief Life History of William
When William Foster was born in 1802, in Basford, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Craddock Foster, was 22 and his mother, Ann Henfrey, was 29. He married Eliza Tomlinson on 23 September 1821, in Basford, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Wavertree, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and Denbighshire, Wales, United Kingdom in 1871. He died on 27 July 1855, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 53.
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- William Foster, "England and Wales Census, 1861"
- William Foster, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Nottinghamshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1937
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1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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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