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Nance 1
Heather Nance
UWRT 1102‐033 T/R 8:00am
WP #2
January 22, 2015
Naming Your Child the French CanadianFrench‐Canadian Way
Growing up I always knew that on my dad’s side of the family all his siblings were named after
an aunt or uncle. Dad himself was a junior taking his father’s name. Over the past week while putting my
family tree together using Ancestry.com, I had started to notice a pattern in the family names. Following
mostly the men in the family to make it easier to track the family name, I noticed all the boys were
named after other men in the past generations. The pattern flowed right on to my aunts and uncles. So I
started prompting me to investigate investigating to find out if there was any rhyme or reason to this
madness.
We are from French decent, Canadian Frenchand French‐Canadian for 5 five generations. I was
not sure where we as a family entered the United States and whenfrom where and when our family
entered the United States until I started my research for our family tree assignment. I could successfully
tracked 7 seven generations in France, and then 5 five generations in Canada before seeing where my
Great‐ Grandfather was born in New York and my grandfather was born in Connecticut. Connecticut is
still where most of my family resides and, where I was born and raised.
According to ‘Old Quebec Customs That Will Be Forgotten’, by Robert Jacques, Broossard, Iin
Quebec there is one a naming tradition which makes sense for the pattern of names I found in our
family tree. According to Jacques, “All male children were christened with Joseph as their first name,
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their Godfather’s common name as their second name, for the first male child their father’s common
name as their third name and then a name or two that was specific to them. Their common name was
what would be used by the individual the most as their given name.” In my family tree I found twelve
Josephs. For female children they used Marie as a christening name, ; also a common name in my family
tree. also found lots of those in our family. Web. 21 Jan. 2015.
<http://www.100megsfree2.com/jjscherr/jacques/oldquebectraditions.html>.
In my more immediate family it is a bit out of order. For example my oldest Uncle was named
after my Great‐ Grandfather, which he was who was named after his father. My second Uncle was
named after my grandfather’s brother, and then my dad who was the third boy was then named after
his father. For the generations which supersede my dad’s, there are lots many of the patterns as
mentioned from thedescribe in Old Quebec Customs That Will Be ForgottenOld Quebec Customs. When I
asked my dad what his he and his brother’s christened name names were, was and his brothers, his
answer was Joseph from what he could remember. So they while seemed to follow that tradition. But
then, no one uses that name anymore.
A similar naming method Same seemed to be true for the woman women in the family. All my
Aunts were given a name of one of the sisters on either my grandfathers or grandmothers family. It was
very confusing as a child growing up because one of the aunts would say would tell a story about Aunt
Sybil and I would think she was talking about my dad’s sister, but no turns out thatin reality it was a
story was about their Aunt Sybil, my great Aunt.