Forrest Family History
Forrest Name Meaning
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 Germanic and
Romance. The English word is from 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 habitation. 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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Forrest
Name Distribution of Forrest Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Forrest families
 742 - 1,481  248 - 741 |
 1 - 247  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Forrest families
|
891 - 1,780 298 - 890 |
1 - 297 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Forrest census records
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Forrest Family Origin
Forrest Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Forrest Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Forrest Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Forrest census records
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Military Service by Forrest
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