Bourgeois

Brief Life History of Bourgeois

When Bourgeois was born about 1940, her father, Rodney Joseph Bourgeois Sr, was 38 and her mother, Josephine Josie Leggio, was 39. She died on 13 February 1940, at the age of 1.

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Family Time Line

Rodney Joseph Bourgeois Sr
1904–1975
Josephine Josie Leggio
1903–2001
Bourgeois
1940–1940
Jo Ann Bourgeois
1940–1940
Rodney Joseph "Smokey" Bourgeois Jr
1942–2020

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  • Funerat, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: French Andre, Marcel, Emile, Alphonse, Armand, Camille, Gaston, Monique, Pierre, Lucien, Michel, Normand.

French: from bourgeois ‘burgher’ (from Old French burgeis, from burc ‘fortified town’), a status name for an inhabitant and (usually) freeman of a fortified town (see Bourg ). Compare Lebourgeois and also Boss , Burgess , and Bushway .

History: Jacques Bourgeois from France married Jeanne Trahan in Acadia c. 1643. Pierre Bourgeois from Poligny in Jura, France, married Marie-Louise Cléroux in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, QC, in 1753.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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