When Joseph Amedee Mallet was born about 1 March 1864, in Shippagan, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada, his father, Joseph Mallé, was 29 and his mother, Phébé Dugué, was 29. He lived in Shippegan, Shippagan, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada in 1881 and Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada in 1901.
Some characteristic forenames: French Jean-Yves, Adelard, Alain, Henri, Jacques, Leonce, Lucien, Monique, Philippe.
French: nickname from a diminutive of Mal ‘bad’. Alternatively, from a derivative of the related Old French word maleit ‘accursed’ (from Latin maledictus, the opposite of benedictus ‘blessed’), applied as a nickname for an unlucky person. Compare Malet 1.
French: variant of Malet 2, an Old French pet form of the personal name Malo .
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