When Thomas M Cyr was born on 17 October 1861, in Van Buren, Aroostook, Maine, United States, his father, Michel Cyr, was 36 and his mother, Helene Eleonore Roy, was 28. He married Sophie M Levasseur on 11 July 1882, in Van Buren, Aroostook, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 11 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Orono, Penobscot, Maine, United States in 1910 and Hopedale, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States for about 10 years. He died in 1944, in Milford, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Milford, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1878: Aroostook, Maine, United States
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Some characteristic forenames: French Armand, Marcel, Normand, Fernand, Alban, Lucien, Adrien, Andre, Cecile, Pierre, Alphy, Emile.
French: from the personal name Cyr, a vernacular shortened form of Latin Cyriacus (see Cyriac , compare Cyriaque ), a Christian saint's name. The cult of St. Cyriacus (French name St. Cyr), a probably fictitious 4th-century infant saint, said to have been martyred at Tarsus with his mother Julitta, was particularly strong in medieval France. Compare St. Cyr .
Alternatively, an altered form of French Sire 1 ‘lord’. Compare Sear 2 and Sears 3.
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