Brief Life History of Simone
When Simone Marcotte was born on 8 September 1898, in Canada, her father, Michel Jean Baptiste Marcotte, was 32 and her mother, Helene Augusta Weippert, was 20. She married Lucien Albert Gastonguay on 9 June 1924, in Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She immigrated to United States in 1900 and lived in Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, United States for about 40 years. She died on 14 February 1979, in Maine, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Saint Peter Catholic Cemetery, Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, United States.
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Sources (9)
- Simone Marcotte in household of John B Marcotte, "United States Census, 1910"
- Simonne Marcotte, "Maine, Marriage Index, 1892-1966, 1977-1996"
- Simone Gastonguay, "Maine Death Index, 1960-1996"
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World Events (8)
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1915
Oldest Grave Seen in the Memorials List
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: French Armand, Andre, Lucien, Marcel, Normand, Alphonse, Fernand, Henri, Michel, Pierre, Rosaire, Adrien.
Altered form of French Marcot: from a pet form of the personal name Marc, Latin Marcus (see Mark 1). Altered ending reflects the Canadian and American French practice of sounding the final -t.
French (Picardy): metonymic occupational name for a vine-grower, from Old French marcotte ‘vineshoot forming a layer’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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