Brief Life History of Demarais
When Demarais was born about 1808, in Verchères, Marguerite-D'Youville, Quebec, Canada, his father, Joseph Valentin Desmarais, was 37 and his mother, Marie Josephte Leduc, was 26. He died on 21 May 1809, in his hometown, at the age of 2.
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Some characteristic forenames: French Cecile, Liette, Prosper.
Altered form of French Desmarais , a cognate of 2 below.
In some cases possibly also French: habitational name, with fused preposition de, for someone from any of several minor places in northern France named Marais (from Old French mareis ‘marsh’), hence a variant of Marais 1. Alternatively, the name may simply have been topographic.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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