When Odillion Deslongchamp was born on 11 June 1868, in Stratford, Wolfe, Quebec, Canada, his father, Francois Xavier Deslongchamp, was 42 and his mother, Emelie Lavallee, was 36. He married Marie Arzilie Picard on 5 July 1892, in Stratford, Wolfe, Quebec, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Wolfe, Quebec, Canada in 1871 and Richmond, Quebec, Canada for about 10 years. He died on 4 May 1959, in Stratford, Wolfe, Quebec, Canada, at the age of 90, and was buried in Stratford, Wolfe, Canada East, British North America.
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French: from Old French long ‘long’ + the plural form of champ ‘field, open land’ (see Champ ), with fused preposition and definite article des ‘from the’, a topographic name for someone who lived by oblong fields, or a habitational name from Les Longchamps, the name of several places in the northwestern part of France. The surname Deslongchamps is very rare in France. Compare Delongchamp .
History: In North America, this surname was originally a secondary surname or dit (‘also called’) name, borne by Mathieu Hubou dit Deslongchamps from Le Mesnil-Durand in Calvados, France, who was in QC by 1649. His descendants also bear the surnames Delongchamp, Tourville , and Courville .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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