When Francois Dufresne was born on 5 March 1795, in Beloeil, Montreal, Quebec, British North America, his father, Basile Benjamin Dufresne, was 30 and his mother, Marie-Joseph Benoite Palardy, was 28. He died on 16 April 1797, in Chambly, Quebec, Canada, at the age of 2.
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Some characteristic forenames: French Armand, Normand, Andre, Edouard, Gabrielle, Gaston, Jacques, Lucien, Olivier, Pierre, Ulysse, Aime.
French: topographic name for someone who lived near a prominent ash tree, from Old French fresne ‘ash’ (from Latin fraxinus), or a habitational name for someone from Le Fresne, the name of several places in the northern part of France, named with this word. It is formed with fused preposition and definite article du ‘from the’. Compare Ash , Ashe , Defrain , Dufrane , and Dufrene .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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