Last name: FORRESTER
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FORRESTER : This last name is indexed 102,444 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
FORRESTER : English: occupational name from Middle English forester ‘officer in charge of a forest or lord's hunting ground’ (Old French forestier Anglo-Norman forester). See Forrest.
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