Forfar Name Meaning, Family History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms (2024)

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Forfar Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

• Marget Forfar, aged 19, who landed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1775 1

Forfar Settlers in United States in the 20th Century

• George Forfar, aged 24, who settled in America from Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1911
• Hugh S. Forfar, aged 17, who landed in America from Durban, S. Africa, in 1920
• Katherine Forfar, aged 49, who settled in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1923

• Ronald Forfar, British actor, known for his work on Bread (1986) , Vatel (2000) and King Lear (1983)
• John Oldroyd Forfar MC, FRSE (1916-2013), British pediatrician and academic, Professor of Child Life and Health at the University of Edinburgh from 1964 to 1982, President of the British Paediatric Association from 1985 to 1988

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• Family Crests: Elements
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1. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)