When Pierre Celestine Forest was born in 1865, in Quebec, Canada, his father, Alexis Forest, was 42 and his mother, Marie Anne Cyr, was 36. He married Marie Anne Ducharme on 12 February 1901, in Duluth, St. Louis, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Bonaventure, Bonaventure, Quebec, Canada in 1901 and Duluth, St. Louis, Minnesota, United States in 1910. He died after 1915.
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French: topographic name for someone who lived in or near a royal forest, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper or worker in one, from Old French forest ‘forest’; or a habitational name from (La) Forest, the name of several places in various parts of France. Unlike modern French forêt, forest was not simply a word for extensive woodland, but referred specifically to large wooded areas reserved by law for the king and his nobles to hunt in (see also English Forrest ). Compare Deforest and Laforest .
English and Scottish: variant of Forrest , a cognate of 1 above.
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