When Leah Forster was born in 1817, in Barrowden, Rutland, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Foster, was 46 and her mother, Mary Woods, was 43. She married Emmanuel Johnson on 25 November 1847, in Barrowden, Rutland, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Knighton, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1871 and Leicester St Margaret, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1881. She died on 23 December 1881, in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 64.
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English: shortened form of Forrester , an occupational name for someone who worked in a forest.
English: possibly a Norman French nickname or occupational name from Old French forcetier ‘maker of scissors or shears, cutler’. Compare Force and Forse .
German (mainly Förster): agent derivative of Middle High German forst ‘forest’, denoting someone who lived in or near a royal forest, or who worked in one (see Forst ). This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine). Compare Foerster .
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