When Joseph Veillet was born on 12 September 1756, in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan, Champlain, Quebec, Canada, his father, Jean Baptiste Veillet, was 36 and his mother, Marie Anne Charbonnau, was 34. He died in February 1757, in his hometown, at the age of 0.
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French:
occupational name for a watchman, from a diminutive of Old French veille ‘watch, guard’ (see Veilleux ).
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