First of all, framboise is raspberry, Strawberry is fraise----- Jim From: "PENNY CARPENTER" <pacarpenter@shaw.ca> To: <qc-etanglo@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 9:03 PM Subject: Re: [QC-ETANGLO] French "dit" names... | My guess is that LaFramboise (after frambroise) was an easy and obvious | choice for a dit name. Framboise means raspberry~and as LaFramboise was | already a recognized surname, it was close enough for a strawberry farmer. | Dit just means 'to say' doesn't it? | | -----Original Message----- | From: qc-etanglo-bounces@rootsweb.com | [mailto:qc-etanglo-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Regi Milan | Sent: April 19, 2007 3:05 PM | To: dr.ellis@physics.org; qc-etanglo@rootsweb.com | Subject: Re: [QC-ETANGLO] French "dit" names... | | I'm not sure if this is right, but when asking this same question, I was | told that it refers to "of" or "known as" or "called". For example, my | ancestor was Caroline Franche dit Laframboise. Laframboise is French for | strawberry. My ancestor's family were strawberry farmers. Thus the "dit | Laframboise" meant "of the strawberry". | | It was a French cousin who told me, so I assumed he was right. :-) | | Regi | | | | -----Original Message----- | From: qc-etanglo-bounces@rootsweb.com | [mailto:qc-etanglo-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of David J. Ellis | Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 3:39 PM | To: qc-etanglo@rootsweb.com | Subject: [QC-ETANGLO] French "dit" names... | | Can anyone explain the use of "dit" names by the French speaking community? | I have come across them a few time in the various census records but because | they do not apply to the lines that I am researched I have not paid much | attention to them, figuring it was just a kind of alias. However, I saw two, | fairly close together, in an 1825 census which were "Louis Gros dit St. | Pierre" and "Antoine St. Pierre dit Gros". | | How does someone acquire a "dit" name? Why did they acquire one? What was | the purpose behind it? | | I figure someone on this list must have some French blood in their ancestry | and can educate us on this matter... | | | | | | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to | QC-ETANGLO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the | quotes in the subject and the body of the message | | | | | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to | QC-ETANGLO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the | quotes in the subject and the body of the message | | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to QC-ETANGLO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message |