When Marie Madeleine Duval was born on 5 April 1731, in Lajemmerais, Quebec, Canada, her father, Marc Antoine Duval, was 45 and her mother, Marie Renée Sel, was 28. She married Pierre Dejarlais on 31 July 1764, in Quebec, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She died on 6 May 1771, in Canada, at the age of 40, and was buried in Lajemmerais, Quebec, Canada.
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Some characteristic forenames: French Andre, Armand, Pierre, Lucien, Marcel, Fernand, Edouard, Jacques, Normand, Rosaire, Alcide, Arsene.
French, Walloon, Breton (of French origin), and Haitian: topographic name for someone ‘from the valley’, from (Old) French val ‘valley’ (see Val ), with fused preposition and definite article du ‘from the’; or a habitational name for someone from Le Val, the name of several places in various parts of France and in Belgium (Wallonia) named with this word. This surname is also established in the Dominican Republic. It is also found England, where it is in part of Huguenot origin. Compare Devall , Deville , and Duvall .
English: perhaps from a diminutive of the Old English female personal name Dūfe (see Dove 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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