When Eleanor Forster was born about September 1769, in Swalwell, Durham, England, her father, George Forster, was 26 and her mother, Margaret Colpitts, was 28. She married John Weldon Colpitts in 1790, in Amherst, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 21 December 1826, in Westmorland, New Brunswick, British North America, at the age of 57, and was buried in Upper Sackville, Sackville Town, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada.
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Thousands of British troops were sent to Boston to enforce Britain's tax laws. Taxes were repealed on all imports to the American Colonies except tea. Americans, disguised as Native Americans, dumped chests of tea imported by the East India Company into the Boston Harbor in protest. This escalated tensions between the American Colonies and the British government.
In 1784, New Brunswick became a separate colony. It is the only bilingual province. The captial is Fredericton.
Established in 1784, when the colony became a province, the legislature met for the first time in 1786. It met in Fredericton in the Lower House.
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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