Brief Life History of George James
When George James Chevalier was born on 30 January 1878, in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Beauharnois-Salaberry, Quebec, Canada, his father, Charles Chevalier, was 31 and his mother, Annie Burns, was 30. He married Alexina Gagne on 17 April 1900, in Holyoke, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. He lived in Hampden, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States in 1920 and Holyoke, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States for about 3 years. He died in 1933, in Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in South Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Georges Chevalier in household of Charles Chevalier, "Canada Census, 1881"
- George Chevalier, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- George James Chevalier, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: French Andre, Pierre, Patrice, Serge, Gabrielle, Jacques, Marcel, Michel, Raoul, Sylvain, Adelore, Antoine.
French: from Old French chevalier ‘knight’ (literally ‘horseman, rider’, from Late Latin caballarius, a derivative of caballus ‘horse’). In the Middle Ages only men of comparative wealth were able to afford the upkeep of a riding horse. It is likely that in the majority of cases the surname was originally a nickname, or an occupational name for a knight's servant, rather than a status name, for most men of the knightly class belonged to noble families which had more specific surnames derived from their estates. This was a name of Norman origin in England but probably did not survive the medieval period, and was later reintroduced by Huguenot refugees.
History: Joseph Chevalier from Dieppe in Seine-Maritime, France, married Françoise-Marthe Barton in Montreal, QC, in 1670. Pierre Chevalier dit Labbé and Duchesne from Pont-l'Abbé-d'Arnoult in Charente-Maritime, France, married Marie-Madeleine Ménard in Montreal, QC, in 1697. — In North America, this surname was originally also a secondary surname or dit (‘also called’) name, borne by Alexis Dulignon dit Chevalier (a descendant of Jean Dulignon from La Rochefoucaud in Charente, France), who married Judith (de) Billy in Louiseville, QC, in 1778. — This surname is listed in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors and also in the similar register of the Huguenot Society of America.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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