When Paul Moleus Landry was born on 10 March 1859, in Youngsville, Lafayette, Louisiana, United States, his father, Derbes L. Landry, was 26 and his mother, Melanie Landry, was 19. He married Odile Landry on 2 February 1880, in Abbeville, Vermilion, Louisiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, United States in 1870 and Ward Five, Vermilion, Louisiana, United States for about 10 years. He died on 30 June 1944, in Kaplan, Vermilion, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Our Lady Of Perpetual Help Catholic Cemetery, Leroy, Vermilion, Louisiana, United States.
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French and English (of Norman origin): from the Old French personal name Landri, from the ancient Germanic Landric(us), a compound of land ‘land’ + rīk ‘powerful, ruler’.
English: from Middle English lavendrie ‘wash-house’ (Old French lavanderie), either a metonymic occupational name for a worker in a wash-house or a name denoting a dweller at a wash-house.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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