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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 5691514, member: 2844&quot;]Forst is a town in Germany, in the east near the Polish border. </p><p>So Forst could be the town, not a forest. And &#039;Forster&#039; could be pertaining to the town of Forst.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forst_(Lausitz)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forst_(Lausitz)" rel="nofollow">https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forst_(Lausitz)</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Understandable. It is certainly difficult to find the meaning of each and every word, especially because it isn&#039;t present day standardised German. You&#039;d probably need someone from the Lausitz region of Germany to make more of it than I did. The Lausitz is on the other side of Germany as seen from where I live, I am more familiar with dialects from the western border.</p><p><br /></p><p>I only know Knysna as a South African town?</p><p><br /></p><p>Dan isn&#039;t a very German sounding first name.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think it contained something more formal. Maybe a certificate saying that he was a member of the guild.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll see if I can find a museum in the Lausitz. Our local museums know all about our guilds, so I&#039;m sure a museum or archive there will be able to tell you more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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