When Marguerite Jaquemot was born about 1662, in Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, her father, Pierre Jaquemot, was 32 and her mother, Marthe Chappuis, was 28. She married Jean Louis Mallet on 26 March 1683, in Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She died on 27 April 1756, in her hometown, at the age of 95.
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form of Margaret , also used in the English-speaking world, where its use has been reinforced by the fact that the name was adopted in the 19th century for a garden flower, a large cultivated variety of daisy. Margaret was earlier used in English as a dialect word denoting the ox-eye daisy, and the French equivalent was borrowed into English just in time to catch the vogue for deriving girls' names from vocabulary words denoting flowers. See also Daisy .
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