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Member Since: May 2006 Posts: 2 Send Message	Ben	Report	1 May 2006 13:07
Member Since: May 2006 Posts: 2 Send Message	In addition I believe that Forster is an Anglisisation of Foerster, of the type carried out by foreign immigrants when they immigrated to English-speaking countries. Foerster is an old German name, and if you search Forster on this site you will find that Foerster is a variant, and at least one of these people came from German of former German territories.
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 4 Send Message	Anne	Report	24 Nov 2007 18:44
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 4 Send Message	Forster - I am one - could also well a derivative of forester, from their trade/work. However when I go to France, Italy etc I'm always asked if I'm German - in which case the German Foersters must have very strong genes, or something, for a likeness still to appear today! All 'my' Forsters hail from Northumberland. Read 'Devil Water by Anya Seton, or the poem 'Young Lochinvar' by Walter Scot or visit Bamburgh Castle. There certainly used to be a saying in Northumberland that 'God made Adam and Eve then he made the Forsters'! So there's some fun for anyone wanting to know more about our wonderful surname! Anne.