Jean Michel Rochon

Brief Life History of Jean Michel

When Jean Michel Rochon was born in 1855, in Inverso Pinasca, Turin, Piedmont, Italy, his father, Jean Michel Rochon, was 46 and his mother, Susanne Robert, was 36. He died in 1856, in United States, at the age of 1, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Jean Michel Rochon
1809–1856
Susanne Robert
1819–1899
Jean Pierre Rochon
1845–1903
Marie Marguerite Rochon
1848–1856
Marianne Rochon
1852–1854
Jean Michel Rochon
1855–1856

Sources (6)

  • Marianne Rochon birth record, Italy, Waldensian Evangelical Church Records, 1679-1969; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939N-2G9R-D2?cc=1861053&wc=M6LN-429%3A168060101%2C168837601%2C168837602%2C168230201
  • Jean Michel Rochon, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Michel Rochon, "Utah, FamilySearch, Early Church Information File, 1830-1900"

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: French Pierre, Andre, Aurele, Gaston, Michel, Yves, Adrien, Antoine, Fernande, Gaetan, Germain, Gilles.

Altered form of French Rocheron: topographic name from a diminutive of rocher ‘rock, crag, boulder’ (see Rocher ), or a habitational name from Le Rocheron, the name of two places in Indre-et-Loire.

French: diminutive of Roche ‘rock’.

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

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Jean Michel Rochon

Jean Michel Rochon, born 1855 in Inverso Pinasca, Turin, Piedmont, Italy; died 1856 in Iowa. Remembered at the Pioneer Children’s Memorial, Stone 7 (left side). Jean Michel is the son of Jean Michel …

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