When Basile Benjamin Dufresne was born on 19 December 1764, in Saint-Joseph, Chambly, Chambly, Quebec, Canada, his father, Basile Dufresne, was 25 and his mother, Marie Catherine Bricault dit Lamarche, was 24. He married Marie-Joseph Benoite Palardy on 16 February 1784, in Beloeil, Surrey, Lower Canada, British North America. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 9 daughters. He died on 15 July 1818, in Chambly, Chambly, Lower Canada, British North America, at the age of 53, and was buried in Chambly, Chambly, Lower Canada, British North America.
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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 .
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