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- from Thomas Halloway's paper on Forman History.
The Foremans are of English extraction. Their known roots reach to Lincolnshire, in eastern England.
A William Forman, found in records of Gainsborough in Lincolnshire, was the father of
Sir William Forman, a haberdasher whom King Henry VIII made High Sheriff of London in 1533. On October 18, 1537, he was knighted, and in 1538 served as Lord Mayor of London (the ceremonial head of London?s commercial center). He also served as a Member of Parliament. Sir William Forman died on January 13, 1547, and was buried at the Church of St. George on Botolph Lane in London.
He left several sons, the eldest of whom was also named WILLIAM. The younger WILLIAM was a merchant in London during the early part of his life, but later returned to Lincolnshire.
He had several sons, one of whom was named Robert. This Robert also had several sons, including one named William who became a vicar in Buckinghamshire.
This Reverend William had a son named Robert, who probably was born in Lincolnshire about 1605. This man, Robert Forman, is the family?s American progenitor.
Sources: William S. Horner, This Old Monmouth of Ours, (Freehold, New Jersey: Moreau Brothers, 1932);
William Forman Wyckoff, ?The Formans of Monmouth and Middlesex Counties,? Somerset County Historical Quarterly, Volume 6, 1917;
Anne Spottswood Dandridge, The Forman Genealogy, (Cleveland, Ohio: The Forman-Bassett-Hatch Company, 1903);
William P. Forman, Records of the Descendants of John Forman, (Cleveland, Ohio: Short & Forman, 1885);
Henry Chandlee Forman, The Formans of New York, (Decatur, Georgia: Published by the Author, 1945);
Elbert Eli Farman, The Foreman-Farman-Forman Genealogy, (New York: T.A. Wright, 1911);
George Lipscombe, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, (London: J. & W. Robins, 1847);
Sir Henry St. George, Knight, The Visitation of London, (London: The Harleian Society, 1880).
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