Brief Life History of Gaudias
When Gaudias Rousseau was born on 20 August 1874, in Saint-Apollinaire, Lotbinière, Quebec, Canada, his father, Samuel Rousseau, was 27 and his mother, Florida Roy, was 30. He married Marie Louise Vézina on 20 November 1899, in La Durantaye, Bellechasse, Quebec, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He died on 7 January 1962, in his hometown, at the age of 87.
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Some characteristic forenames: French Lucien, Pierre, Emile, Marcel, Armand, Andre, Jacques, Michel, Normand, Gilles, Philippe, Adrien.
French and Walloon: nickname for a red-haired man, from a diminutive of Old French ro(u)s ‘red’ (see Roux and Leroux ). This surname is also found in the Flemish part of Belgium, in Haiti, and in South Africa. Compare Rosseau and Russeau .
History: This surname is listed in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors. The Huguenot ancestor was Théodore de Rousseau, who arrived with his son Hillaire at Manakin, VA, in the early 1700s. — The South African bearers of the surname Rousseau trace their origin to Pierre Rousseau from Mer, France, who arrived in the Dutch Cape Colony in 1688. He is recognized as a French Huguenot ancestor by the Huguenot Society of South Africa. However, his descendants mainly bear the altered form of the name, Rossouw.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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