When Diana Forest was born on 15 April 1795, in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Alexander Forrest, was 28 and her mother, Anne Williams, was 26. She married John Williams on 21 September 1816, in Ruabon, Denbighshire, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Blacon, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1795 and Ruabon, Denbighshire, Wales, United Kingdom for about 7 years. She died about 1865, in Oldham, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 71.
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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.
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