When Pierre Paul Fournier was born on 14 April 1791, in Saint-Thomas-de-la-Pointe-à-la-Caille, District Judiciaire de Québec, Quebec, British North America, his father, Joseph Fournier, was 34 and his mother, Marie-Geneviève Boulet Boulay, was 28. He married Jeanne Françoise Blais on 19 November 1811, in Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Hertford, Lower Canada, British North America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 10 daughters. He died on 27 November 1862, in Sainte-Claire, Dorchester, Canada East, British North America, at the age of 71, and was buried in Sainte-Claire, Dorchester, Canada East, British North America.
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Some characteristic forenames: French Andre, Armand, Normand, Pierre, Lucien, Emile, Fernand, Marcel, Aime, Donat, Jacques, Yves.
French and Walloon: occupational name for a baker, Old French fo(u)rnier (from Latin furnarius). This surname is also found in England, in part as a surname of Huguenot origin. Compare Forney , Fournet , and Fuller .
History: Probably the first American bearer of this surname was Guillaume Fournier from Orne in Normandy, who was in Quebec City, QC, by 1651, where he married Françoise Hébert.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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