When Alexis François Daoust was born in March 1710, in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Montreal, Canada, New France, her father, Guilaume d'Aoust, was 66 and her mother, Marie Magdelenne de La Londe, was 39. She died on 18 May 1720, in Pointe-Claire, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, at the age of 10, and was buried in Pointe-Claire, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Some characteristic forenames: French Andre, Emile, Lucien, Marcel, Pierre, Armand, Celina, Gilles, Guylaine, Jeannot, Michel, Roch.
French:
nickname, with fused preposition d(e) ‘of’, from Old French aoust ‘August’, by extension also ‘harvest’ (from Latin (mensis) Augustus, from the name of the first Roman emperor; see Augustus ), for someone who was born in the month of August, or who owed a feudal obligation to help with the harvest in that month, or for a seasonal worker who hired himself out for the harvest.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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