When Phoebe Maria Foster was born in 1876, in Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Alfred Foster, was 30 and her mother, Frances Phoebe Upchurch, was 30. She married John Howard Burchell in 1907, in Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Offley, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1881 and Seven Kings, Essex, England, United Kingdom in 1911. She died on 19 March 1957, in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 81.
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.
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