Brief Life History of Florence Teresa
Florence Teresa Foster was born on 21 February 1916, in Ashburton, Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand. She married Harold Victor Grimmer on 20 November 1940, in Waitara, Taranaki, New Zealand. She died on 23 August 1999, in Otago, New Zealand, at the age of 83, and was buried in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Spouse and Children
1900–1964 Male
1916–1999 Female
World Events (7)
1923 · New Zealand's Claim to Antartica
Age 7
1939
Age 23
1943 · Eleanor Roosevelt Visits During War
Age 27
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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