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Foubister Family History

Foubister Surname Meaning

from Foubister in Saint Andrews (Orkney) which is recorded as Fowbustir in 149.

The place-name derives from Old Scandinavian bólstaðr ‘farmstead’ with an uncertain first element.

It is probably fúll ‘stinking’.

Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016


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