When Joan Van Foreest was born on 8 March 1762, in Hoorn, North Holland, Netherlands, his father, Jan van Foreest, was 28 and his mother, Agatha van Foreest, was 28. He married Lambertina Van Erp on 3 July 1788. He died in 1825, at the age of 63.
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A four year war with England was fought.
An alliance between Britain, Prussia and the Netherlands was ratified at the Hague.
France and Napoleon conquered the Netherlands.
English: topographic name for someone who lived in or near a royal forest, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper or worker in one. Middle English forest was not, as today, a near-synonym of wood, but referred specifically to a large area of woodland reserved by law for the purposes of hunting by the king and his nobles. The same applied to the European cognates, both ancient Germanic and Romance. The English word is from Middle English forest ‘forest’, Old French forest, Late Latin forestis (silva). This is generally taken to be a derivative of foris ‘outside’; the reference was probably to woods lying outside a settlement. On the other hand, Middle High German for(e)st has been held to be a derivative of Old High German foraha ‘fir’ (see Forster ), with the addition of a collective suffix.
Irish: this name is also frequently attested in Ireland, where it may be a variant of Forrestal .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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