Brief Life History of Louis Joseph
When Louis Joseph Fournier was born on 22 February 1823, in Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Montmagny, Quebec, Canada, his father, Etienne Fournier, was 26 and his mother, Marguerite Boulet, was 31. He married Félicité Leblanc on 4 July 1848, in Saint-Charles-Borromée, Berthier, Quebec, Canada. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 8 daughters.
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- Joseph Fournier, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Legacy NFS Source: Louis Joseph Fournier - Government record: birth-name: Louis Joseph Fournier
- Legacy NFS Source: Louis Joseph Fournier - Government record: death: 21 August 1827; Gravelines, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
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1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: French Andre, Armand, Normand, Pierre, Lucien, Emile, Fernand, Marcel, Aime, Donat, Jacques, Yves.
French and Walloon: occupational name for a baker, Old French fo(u)rnier (from Latin furnarius). This surname is also found in England, in part as a surname of Huguenot origin. Compare Forney , Fournet , and Fuller .
History: Probably the first American bearer of this surname was Guillaume Fournier from Orne in Normandy, who was in Quebec City, QC, by 1651, where he married Françoise Hébert.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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