Brief Life History of Léandre
When Léandre Hunt Houle was born on 23 October 1801, in Saint-Philippe, Laprairie, Quebec, Canada, his father, Joachim Houle Hunt, was 36 and his mother, Céleste Gagné, was 25. He married Clotilde Longtin on 7 January 1824, in Saint-Constant, Laprairie, Quebec, Canada. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 9 daughters. He died on 28 January 1881, in Saint-Rémi, Napierville, Quebec, Canada, at the age of 79, and was buried in Saint-Rémi, Napierville, Quebec, Canada.
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- Leon Houle in entry for Lumena Narbonne, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
- Leon Houle in entry for Edmond Houle, "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920"
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British Columbia joins the confederation.
Name Meaning
English (southwestern): occupational name for a hunter, from Middle English hunte ‘hunter, huntsman’ (Old English hunta). The term was used not only of the hunting on horseback of game such as stags and wild boars, which in the Middle Ages was a pursuit restricted to the ranks of the nobility, but also to much humbler forms of pursuit such as bird catching and poaching for food. The word seems also to have been used as an Old English personal name and to have survived into the Middle Ages as an occasional personal name. Compare Huntington and Huntley .
Irish: adopted for various Irish surnames containing or thought to contain the Gaelic element fiadhach ‘hunt’; for example Ó Fiaich (see Fee ) and Ó Fiachna (see Fenton ).
Possibly an Americanized form of German Hundt .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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