When FELICIE POTIER was born on 18 December 1840, in Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, United States, her father, Louis Pothier, was 25 and her mother, Virginie Guidry, was 23.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Louisiana was readmitted into the Union.
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Some characteristic forenames: French Marcel, Monique, Raoul. Irish Murphy.
French: occupational name for a maker of drinking and storage vessels, from potier ‘potter’, an agent derivative of Old French pot ‘drinking vessel’. In North America, the surname Potier is also an altered form of its less common French variant Pothier . It is also found in England, as a surname of Huguenot origin. Compare Pottier .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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