Brief Life History of Alfred Holmes
When Alfred Holmes Foster was born on 16 March 1895, his father, Frank Foster, was 32 and his mother, Ellen Brewer, was 30. He married Florence Ada Potton on 18 July 1917, in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1911 and Bradford St James, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1939. He died about 1948, at the age of 54.
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- Alfred Holmes Foster in household of Frank Foster, "England and Wales Census, 1911"
- Legacy NFS Source: Alfred Holmes Foster - Government record: birth-name: Alfred Holmes Foster
- Alfred H Foster, "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005"
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1904 · The Entente Cordiale
The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.
1908
London, United Kingdom hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1914
Outbreak of World War I. UK enters hostilities against Germany. Grueling trench warfare in Belgium and France.
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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