Brief Life History of Isabell
When Isabell Forest was born in 1733, in Earsdon, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Forrest, was 22 and her mother, Mary Tailor, was 23. She married Michael Maughan on 30 May 1756, in Hartburn, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She was buried in Haydon, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom.
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- Isabel Forrest, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Isabel Forest, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
- Isabel Forster in entry for Michael Hall, "England, Northumberland, Parish Registers, 1538-1950"
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Some characteristic forenames: French Andre, Pascal, Amie, Armand, Bertice, Etienne, Fernand, Germaine, Jacques, Normand, Sylvain.
French: topographic name for someone who lived in or near a royal forest, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper or worker in one, from Old French forest ‘forest’; or a habitational name from (La) Forest, the name of several places in various parts of France. Unlike modern French forêt, forest was not simply a word for extensive woodland, but referred specifically to large wooded areas reserved by law for the king and his nobles to hunt in (see also English Forrest ). Compare Deforest and Laforest .
English and Scottish: variant of Forrest , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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