Brief Life History of Stella
When Stella Demarest was born on 22 August 1899, in Chester, Chester, Orange, New York, United States, her father, George Houston Demarest, was 26 and her mother, Edith May Stevens, was 20. She died on 1 September 1899, in Chester, Orange, New York, United States, at the age of 0.
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- Stella M Demerest, "New York, State Death Index, 1880-1956"
Name Meaning
French: regional variant of Demarais , a cognate of 2 below.
Altered form of French Desmarets: habitational name, with fused preposition and definite article des ‘from the’, for someone from any of various places called Les Marets (from a regional derivative of Old French mareis ‘marsh’). Alternatively, the name may simply have been topographic. Compare Demaray , Demaree , and Demorest .
History: The progenitor of many of the American Demarests was David Demarest from France, who settled in NY (and later in NJ) in the second half of the 17th century. His father's surname was DesMarets. David Demarest is listed in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors (as David Demarêts or Demarest or des Marêts or des Marest) and also in the similar register of the Huguenot Society of America (as David des Marest).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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