When Josephte Maillot was born on 14 March 1781, in Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, Beauharnois-Salaberry, Quebec, Canada, her father, Guillaume Mailhot, was 28 and her mother, Christine Hebert, was 27. She married Jean Baptiste Barabe on 30 September 1806, in Deschaillons, Lotbinière, Quebec, Canada. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 2 May 1867, in Deschaillons, Lotbinière, Quebec, Canada, at the age of 86, and was buried in Mount Morris, Ogle, Illinois, United States.
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from Old French maillot ‘big mallet’, used as a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked with such an implement, e.g. a smith, and perhaps also as a nickname for a fearsome warrior (see English Mallett 2). This is the usual form of the surname in France (it is, however, most frequent in Réunion), while in North America it is normally spelled Mailhot .
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