When Pelagie Gautron dite La Rochelle was born on 3 July 1777, in Saint-Vallier, Bellechasse, Quebec, Canada, her father, Pierre Gautron dit larochelle, was 42 and her mother, Marie Madeleine Daniau, was 29. She married Pierre Paul Fournier on 27 October 1795, in Saint-François-de-Sales-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Hertford, Lower Canada, British North America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 13 October 1806, in Saint-Henri, Bellechasse, Quebec, Canada, at the age of 29.
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French (mainly Ille-et-Vilaine) and English (Staffordshire; of Norman origin): habitational name from (La) Rochelle, the name of several places in various parts of France, especially that in Manche, from a diminutive of Old French roche ‘rock, cliff, promontory’. In Britain, the surname is often recorded in its Norman French form Rokel(l)e.
French (Alsace): variant of Rochel .
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