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HelpMy Ancestors from 1600's until today.
My Grandfather somehow found a lot of his ancestors names, they go back until the early 1600's in France and moved to Canada in the mid 1600's. I left the last names in for the ones who are long gone but took out the last names for the first 5 generation and William and Benjamin in the 6th and 7th for safety reasons! But there are 7 generations of 'F' which is my last name. Hope you find them interesting!
Dates represent when person was born approximately.
1st 1990's
Carly Ann F
2nd 1960's
John Albert F
Katherine Ann N
3rd 1940's
Lawrence F
Dianne E
4th 1910's
Joseph Albert F
Margaret Ann J
5th Late 1800's
William Joseph F
Marie Anne B
6th Mid 1800's
William F
Marie Louise Delanne Andre Dit St Amand (Not sure if Andre is part of the last name?)
Jean Bernard
Rosa Messier
7th Early 1800's
Benjamin F
Francoise Sauve
Pierre Andre Dit St Amand
Rose Martin
Louis Messier/Macey
Angelique Gendron
8th late 1700's Early 1800's
Jean Baptiste Andre Dit St Amand
Angelique Lefevre
Luc Martin
Catherine Girard
9th Late 1700's
Jean Baptiste Andre Dit St Amand
Marie Josephte St Michel
Francoise Martin
Anne Rodrigue
Jean Baptiste Girard
Josephte Park
10th mid 1700's
Francois Amable Martin
Isabelle Rousson Leroux
Jean Sebastien Rodrigue
Marie Anne Parent
11th Early and mid 1700's
Jean Martin Jr.
Therese Benault
Jean Baptiste Rousson Leroux
Marie Angelique Elisabeth Liberson
Joseph Rodrigue
Marie Rodrigue
Etienne Joseph Parent
Marguerite Vinst
12th Mid 1600's
Jean Martin
Jeanne Dionet
Pierre Ernault
Marie Anne Ratel
13th mid 1600's
Jacques Enaud
Unknown
Pierre Ratel
Marie Lemarie
14th Early 1600's
Michel Ratel
Marguerite Gosset
Joseph Lemarie
Elisabeth Dupre
I find Etienne, Josephte, Delanne interesting, I have never heard of them, I see Etienne is the french form of Steven but the other two? Has anyone heard of them? Also Amable, though after looking it up its French which makes sense.
I am also surprised about Andre and Rosa since they aren't really French?
Angelique Surprised me with several occurrences, same with Jean Baptiste but I guess they are popular in French speaking areas. I was pleasantly surprised with Sebastien.
Marie Lemarie gave me a chuckle, I realize there was no google and limited names back then but did Joseph really needed to name his daughter a name that is already in her last name? lol. Also just the amount of Maries…
:)
Edit: I should also mention that this is just my Dad's Father's side of the family. My Dad's Mother's would be English names and my Mother's side would be Ukrainian.
Also make up some new names with the ones here, I'd love to see some!
Cheers
Dates represent when person was born approximately.
1st 1990's
Carly Ann F
2nd 1960's
John Albert F
Katherine Ann N
3rd 1940's
Lawrence F
Dianne E
4th 1910's
Joseph Albert F
Margaret Ann J
5th Late 1800's
William Joseph F
Marie Anne B
6th Mid 1800's
William F
Marie Louise Delanne Andre Dit St Amand (Not sure if Andre is part of the last name?)
Jean Bernard
Rosa Messier
7th Early 1800's
Benjamin F
Francoise Sauve
Pierre Andre Dit St Amand
Rose Martin
Louis Messier/Macey
Angelique Gendron
8th late 1700's Early 1800's
Jean Baptiste Andre Dit St Amand
Angelique Lefevre
Luc Martin
Catherine Girard
9th Late 1700's
Jean Baptiste Andre Dit St Amand
Marie Josephte St Michel
Francoise Martin
Anne Rodrigue
Jean Baptiste Girard
Josephte Park
10th mid 1700's
Francois Amable Martin
Isabelle Rousson Leroux
Jean Sebastien Rodrigue
Marie Anne Parent
11th Early and mid 1700's
Jean Martin Jr.
Therese Benault
Jean Baptiste Rousson Leroux
Marie Angelique Elisabeth Liberson
Joseph Rodrigue
Marie Rodrigue
Etienne Joseph Parent
Marguerite Vinst
12th Mid 1600's
Jean Martin
Jeanne Dionet
Pierre Ernault
Marie Anne Ratel
13th mid 1600's
Jacques Enaud
Unknown
Pierre Ratel
Marie Lemarie
14th Early 1600's
Michel Ratel
Marguerite Gosset
Joseph Lemarie
Elisabeth Dupre
I find Etienne, Josephte, Delanne interesting, I have never heard of them, I see Etienne is the french form of Steven but the other two? Has anyone heard of them? Also Amable, though after looking it up its French which makes sense.
I am also surprised about Andre and Rosa since they aren't really French?
Angelique Surprised me with several occurrences, same with Jean Baptiste but I guess they are popular in French speaking areas. I was pleasantly surprised with Sebastien.
Marie Lemarie gave me a chuckle, I realize there was no google and limited names back then but did Joseph really needed to name his daughter a name that is already in her last name? lol. Also just the amount of Maries…
:)
Edit: I should also mention that this is just my Dad's Father's side of the family. My Dad's Mother's would be English names and my Mother's side would be Ukrainian.
Also make up some new names with the ones here, I'd love to see some!
Cheers
This message was edited 7/6/2014, 12:10 AM
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André not French? Lol. It is 100% French; only recently adopted by English-speaking blacks. As for Rosa, it's not uncommon for the French to use versions ending with -a. Past people did borrow naming influence from other languages, especially a closely related one like Spanish is to French.
Marie and Jean-Baptiste are the Catholic influence coming in. Marie was stupidly common; in fact I'm pretty sure almost all girls of past Québécoise generations had Marie as a first name, using their second name in everyday life.
Marie and Jean-Baptiste are the Catholic influence coming in. Marie was stupidly common; in fact I'm pretty sure almost all girls of past Québécoise generations had Marie as a first name, using their second name in everyday life.
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Thanks for this, so interesting!
Many of the last names are familiar to me, in my area(French-speaking Canada, though not Quebec).Not all of them though, some are new to me.
Angelique is not common here.Jean-Baptiste has been much used, thought it's mostly an older man's name now.
Sebastien is quite popular these days, especially as a compound name-Jean Sebastien,Luc-Sebastien.
Actually, my niece married a man named Jean-Sebastien,though he's often called "J.S." in the family.
Many of the last names are familiar to me, in my area(French-speaking Canada, though not Quebec).Not all of them though, some are new to me.
Angelique is not common here.Jean-Baptiste has been much used, thought it's mostly an older man's name now.
Sebastien is quite popular these days, especially as a compound name-Jean Sebastien,Luc-Sebastien.
Actually, my niece married a man named Jean-Sebastien,though he's often called "J.S." in the family.
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re Marie Louise: Delanne is a surname given as part of her name - probably a family name. Andre (or André: accent marks were not always used at the time) is the family surname, and St. Amand is an adopted surname: 'dit' = 'called'. Adopted surnames were a common thing in Canada for various reasons. There's a good summary here: http://genealogy.about.com/b/2010/07/08/understanding-dit-names.htm
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Ahh Pie, you answered my question about the Dit thing! You are the so smart best.
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