When Phillip Oscar Blancher was born in September 1858, in South Elmsley Township, Leeds and Grenville, Canada West, British North America, his father, Albert Blanchard, was 42 and his mother, Sarah Ann Hayes, was 37. He married Margaret Ann Seymour on 1 November 1882, in Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in South Elmsley Township, Leeds, Canada West, British North America in 1871 and Township of Logan, Ogemaw, Michigan, United States in 1900. He died on 28 October 1902, in Township of Churchill, Ogemaw, Michigan, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Churchill Township Cemetery, Selkirk, Township of Churchill, Ogemaw, Michigan, United States.
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Some characteristic forenames: French Jean-Marc.
English (of Norman origin): variant of Blanchard with loss of -d.
French and English (of Norman origin): occupational name from Old French blancheour ‘bleacher’, derived from blancheier ‘to make white’.
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