Brief Life History of Jaques
When Jaques Bounous was born about 1685, in Villasecca Perrero, Turin, Piedmont, Italy, his father, Pierre Bounous, was 20 and his mother, Jeanne, was 29. He had at least 3 sons and 3 daughters with Marie Monnet. He died before 30 January 1743.
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- Piedmont project family group sheets; ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSZ5-B9JR-2
- Italy, Waldensian Evangelical Church Records, 1679-1969; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939N-2P3R-Q?cc=1861053&wc=M6LN-6NL%3A168060101%2C169060301%2C169060302%2C169070701
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Name Meaning
form of James and Jacob . In French there is no distinction between a form corresponding to Jacob and a form corresponding to James. This is a perennially popular French given name, and Jacques or Jacques Bonhomme has been used (like John Bull in English) as a typification of the ordinary citizen. In Shakespeare's time it was also used as an English name, pronounced ‘jay-kwez’, as in the case of the melancholy character Jacques in As You Like It. Though rarely, if ever, now used in Britain it is found in the United States.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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