Foster Family History
Foster Name Meaning
English: reduced form of Forster.English: nickname
from Middle English foster ‘foster parent’ (Old English
fostre, a derivative of fostrian ‘to nourish or
rear’).Jewish: probably an Americanized form of one or
more like-sounding Jewish surnames, such as Forster.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Foster
Name Distribution of Foster Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Foster families
 4,087 - 8,172  1,363 - 4,086 |
 1 - 1,362  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Foster families
|
198 - 393 67 - 197 |
1 - 66 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Foster census records
You can see how Foster families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
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Foster Family Origin
Foster Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Foster families immigrated
to the United States.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Foster Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Foster families immigrated
to Australia.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Foster Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Foster census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Foster ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Foster
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