Foster

Foster households in mid-nineteenth century Ireland

Household numbers by county in Griffith's (1847-64), as on the map

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Antrim:	45	Armagh:	20	Belfast city:	20	Carlow:	5
Cavan:	44	Clare:	12	Cork:	1	Cork city:	4
Derry:	27	Donegal:	39	Down:	15	Dublin:	9
Dublin city:	12	Fermanagh:	69	Galway:	15	Kerry:	9
Kildare:	7	Kilkenny:	4	Laois:	22	Leitrim:	14
Limerick:	2	Limerick city:	1	Longford:	7	Louth:	11
Mayo:	18	Meath:	14	Monaghan:	35	Offaly:	6
Roscommon:	2	Sligo:	5	Tipperary:	4	Tyrone:	38
Waterford:	5	Westmeath:	6	Wexford:	7	Wicklow:	6

Surname Dictionary

Forrester	Quite numerous: Dublin, Ulster. English. DBS.
Forster	fairly numerous: Belfast, Down, Fermanagh, Longford. English, as Forrester.
Foster	numerous: Ulster, N Leinster, N Munster. English, (1) foster-parent, (2) variant of Forrester. Reaney also mentions Forseter, a shearer, as a possible derivation. DBS.

The surname

Family histories: 1

Parishes where Foster and a second surname are found together

Variants in Griffith's
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Non-Griffith's Variants

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