When Effie M. Blanchard was born in 1860, in Maine, United States, her father, Raymond S. Blanchard, was 28 and her mother, Charlotte Maria Treat, was 20. She married William Henry Laskey on 22 December 1888, in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States. She lived in Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts, United States in 1870 and Dover MM, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States in 1880. She died on 11 November 1942, in Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 82.
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Some characteristic forenames: French Armand, Pierre, Andre, Marcel, Emile, Monique, Camille, Dominique, Euclide, Germaine, Leonce, Lucien.
French and English (of Norman origin): from the French medieval personal name Blanchard, from an ancient Germanic name composed of the elements blank ‘white, shining’ + hard ‘strong, brave’.
French and English: derivative of Blanc .
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