When Rosilda Bernier was born on 7 August 1898, in Massachusetts, United States, her father, Alphonse Bernier, was 38 and her mother, Anna Gagnon, was 39. She lived in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States for about 10 years. She died on 7 June 1980, in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 81.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
St. Nicholas Orthodox church and rectory was built in 1908. It is a wood framed building with a cross shaped spire, built for immigrants from Eastern Europe. It would years later that the rectory was built on it
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Some characteristic forenames: French Marcel, Normand, Andre, Fernand, Armand, Adrien, Michel, Camille, Jacques, Lucien, Benoit, Laurent.
French: from the personal name Bernier, composed of the ancient Germanic elements bern ‘bear’ + hari ‘army’. Compare Barney and Barnier .
North German: habitational name from a place so named in Mecklenburg.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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