When Joseph Marie Boissonneau dit St. Onge was born on 18 September 1712, in Saint-Jean-Baptiste, L'Île-d'Orléans, Quebec, Canada, his father, Jean Boissonneau St-Onge, was 33 and his mother, Marguerite Catherine Choret, was 23. He died on 22 July 1715, in his hometown, at the age of 2, and was buried in Saint-Jean-Baptiste, L'Île-d'Orléans, Quebec, Canada.
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Some characteristic forenames: African/Muslim Abdoulaye, Mamadou, Ibrahima, Oumar, Ahmad, Aliou, Aminata, Basem, Cheikh, Djibril, Husam, Maan, Mouhamadou, Saliou, Sekou, Serigne, Nabil, Rachid.
West African (Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, Guinea, and Ivory Coast): from the name of the Dia clan of the Fulani people, which may be of the same origin as the name of the town of Dia in Mali and as the name of the medieval Dia Dynasty of Gao, also in Mali. This surname is also found among the Soninke and Tukulor peoples. Compare Diao and Jah .
Muslim: from a personal name based on Arabic ḍiyā’ ‘light, glow, illumination’ (see Zia ). It is found e.g. in Iraq.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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