Brief Life History of Gertrude Joan
When Gertrude Joan Pelletier was born on 31 October 1898, in Bay City, Bay, Michigan, United States, her father, Damase Pelletier, was 51 and her mother, Marie Louise DUBE, was 38. She married Richard Dominick Vanderlip on 10 December 1921, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in United States in 1949 and Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1950. She died on 14 December 1978, in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Los Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Gertrude J Vanderlip, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Gertrude Pelletier - Government record: birth: 1899; Michigan, United States
- Gertrude Pellitier, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1904 · Belle Isle Aquarium
The Belle Isle Aquarium is a public aquarium located in Belle Isle Park in Detroit. It opened on August 18, 1904, and was the oldest continually operating public aquarium in North America when it closed on April 3, 2005. The aquarium reopened to the public on August 18, 2012, and is now run entirely by volunteers
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: French Armand, Lucien, Emile, Andre, Normand, Jacques, Marcel, Rosaire, Cecile, Laurent, Laurier, Adelard.
French: occupational name from pelletier ‘furrier’, also ‘fur trapper’. Compare Peltier and also Pelcher , Pelkey , Pelky , and Pilkey .
History: Guillaume Pelletier/Peltier dit Gobloteur from Bresolettes in Orne, France, married Michelle Mabille in France in 1619, died in Quebec City, QC, in 1657. Nicolas Pelletier/Peltier from Gallardon in Eure-et-Loir, France, married Jeanne (de) Voisy in France c. 1632, died in Sillery, QC, c. 1675. Pierre Pelletier/Peltier from Saint-Martin-de-Fraigneau in Vendée, France, married Françoise Trochet in QC in 1671. See also Antaya .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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