When Jean Baptiste Paradis was born on 18 August 1843, in Sainte Marguerite de Blairfindie, Saint-Jean, Canada East, British North America, his father, Jean Baptiste Paradis, was 36 and his mother, Isabelle Elisabeth Brouillette, was 35. He married Marie Laforet on 27 April 1868, in Saint-Malo, Compton, Quebec, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Saint-Denis, Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada in 1891 and Labelle, Quebec, Canada in 1911. He died on 19 May 1928, at the age of 84, and was buried in Saint-Malo, Compton, Quebec, Canada.
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Historical Boundaries: 1854: Kankakee, Illinois, United States
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Some characteristic forenames: French Armand, Fernand, Lucien, Normand, Raoul, Adelard, Andre, Laureat, Marcel, Philippe, Serge, Adrien.
French: from a learned variant of Old French pareis ‘Paradise’ (from Greek paradeisos; see below and Paradise ). As a toponym this was applied to verdant places, and it is quite common as a placename in Nord and Normandy; the surname, therefore, can be a topographic or habitational name. Compare Paradee , Paradise , and Parady .
In some cases also an American shortened form of any of various Greek surnames derived from a personal name based on classical Greek paradeisos ‘paradise, pleasure garden’ (see Paradise ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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