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Romain RAYMOND dit PHOCAS was born abt. 1684 in France
Romain RAYMOND dit PHOCAS was the child of ? and ?Romain was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1709.
Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):
Romain married Marie-Angélique OUELLET 21 January 1709 in Rivière-Ouelle, Canada, New France . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Angélique OUELLET was born 5 November 1691 in Rivière-Ouelle, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Liesse). Marie-Angélique was the child of Mathurin-René OUELLET and Angélique LEBEL.
Romain married (2) Thérèse ST-PIERRE abt. 1715 in Québec Province, Canada . The couple had (at least) 5 children.
Thérèse ST-PIERRE was born 12 September 1690 in Rivière-Ouelle, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Liesse). Thérèse died 22 August 1763 in Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre). Thérèse was the child of Pierre ST-PIERRE dit DESSAINT and Marie-Anne GERBERT.
Romain RAYMOND dit PHOCAS died 9 January 1762 in Kamouraska, Canada .
son of Renauld Focase and Catherine Gaspart
Details of the family tree of Romain appear below.
Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changesFrom its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.
Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.
Québec Généalogie - What is a 'dit/dite' name?
When the first settlers came to Québec from France it was a custom to add a 'dit' nickname to the surname. The English translation of 'dit' is 'said'. The Colonists of Nouvelle France added 'dit' names as distinguishers. A settler might have wanted to differentiate their family from their siblings by taking a 'dit' name that described the locale to which they had relocated.
The acquiring of a 'dit' name might also be the result of a casual adoption, whereby the person wanted to honor the family who had raised them. Another reason was also to distinguish themselves by taking as a 'dit' name the town or village in France from which they originated. This custom ended around 1900 when people began using only one name, either the 'dit' nickname or their original surname.
Source: American-French Genealogical Society, Woonsocket, Rhode Island (www.afgs.org/ditnames/index1.html)
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