Brief Life History of Joseph
When Joseph Demers was born on 11 October 1695, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, his father, André Du Mets, was 36 and his mother, Anne Jetté, was 25. He married Marie-Josephe Viger on 11 January 1723, in Notre-Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 20 April 1771, in his hometown, at the age of 75, and was buried in Notre-Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: French Mireille, Marcel, Andre, Armand, Lucien, Normand, Jacques, Alphonse, Fernand, Adrien, Alcide, Cecile.
French Canadian: altered form (probably in the literal sense of 2 below) of northern French Dumets, itself a variant of Dumetz, a habitational name, with fused preposition and definite article du ‘from the’, for someone from any of several places in the north of France called (Le) Metz, named with a regional term for a ‘farmstead’ (compare Mas 1 and Dume 2). Compare also Demarce , Demars 1, and Dumay 1.
French: habitational name, with fused preposition de ‘from’, denoting someone from either of two places in France named Mers, Mers-les-Bains (Somme) or Mers-sur-Indre (Indre).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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