When Frances Deslauriers was born in 1937, in Rhode Island, United States, her father, Frederick Edwin Deslauriers Sr, was 26 and her mother, Doris Chamberlin, was 20. She married Eugene Floody on 29 September 1954, in United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 1 September 2017, in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 80.
Some characteristic forenames: French Armand, Andre, Aime, Alcide, Aurore, Cecile, Edouard, Emile, Florent, Gilles, Jacques, Jean Claude.
French: topographic name for someone living among laurels, from the plural of laurier ‘laurel’ (from Old French lorier), with fused preposition and definite article des ‘from the’; or a habitational name for someone from Les Lauriers, the name of several places in various parts of France. Compare Delaurier , Delorey , Deloria , and Delorie .
History: In North America, this surname was in most if not all cases originally a secondary surname or dit (‘also called’) name, borne by several 17th and 18th-century French Canadians, including Noël Legault dit Deslauriers (see Legault ).
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