Brief Life History of Margurite Dumets
When Margurite Dumets Demers was born on 5 March 1694, in La Prairie, Laprairie, Quebec, Canada, her father, Joseph Demers, was 36 and her mother, Marie Marguerite Guitault, was 27. She married Jean Baptiste Boyer on 14 July 1722, in La Prairie, Laprairie, Quebec, Canada. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 11 May 1732, in her hometown, at the age of 38.
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- Margueritte Demers in entry for Margueritte Boyer, "Canada Deaths and Burials, 1664-1955"
- Margueritte Demers in entry for Antoine Boyer and Elizabeth Bourdon, "Canada Marriages, 1661-1949"
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Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: French Mireille, Marcel, Andre, Armand, Lucien, Normand, Jacques, Alphonse, Fernand, Adrien, Alcide, Cecile.
French Canadian: altered form (probably in the literal sense of 2 below) of northern French Dumets, itself a variant of Dumetz, a habitational name, with fused preposition and definite article du ‘from the’, for someone from any of several places in the north of France called (Le) Metz, named with a regional term for a ‘farmstead’ (compare Mas 1 and Dume 2). Compare also Demarce , Demars 1, and Dumay 1.
French: habitational name, with fused preposition de ‘from’, denoting someone from either of two places in France named Mers, Mers-les-Bains (Somme) or Mers-sur-Indre (Indre).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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