Daily AncestorBrewster
A brewster was a brewer; the word first meant a woman who brewed and later, in Scotland, a brewer of either sex.
Wiktionary gives brewster as an archaic word for a female brewer and, in Britain and Scotland, for a brewer of either sex.
As an English occupational surname Brewster indicated a woman involved in brewing. The word is built like baxter, an old word for a baker formed from bake plus the ending -ster, which first marked a woman doing the work.
As seen in a recordScottish burgh records of the 1500s and 1600s
Margaret Lowrie, brewster in Perth
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