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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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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