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re: Cajun surnames
Posted on 2/5/22 at 11:36 am to Bamafig
Posted on 2/5/22 at 11:36 am to Bamafig
There is a difference between CAjun and French. Cajun is specific to the diaspora from Acadie (now part of Nova Scotia)
Also not that a lot of supposedly French names are actually German but slightly changed They come mostly from along the Mississippi River
Here is the list of actual Cajun surnames
LINK
Also not that a lot of supposedly French names are actually German but slightly changed They come mostly from along the Mississippi River
Here is the list of actual Cajun surnames
LINK
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Posted on 2/5/22 at 2:24 pm to CitizenK
Your list is shite, no Couvillion.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 4:22 pm to CitizenK
quote:
Here is the list of actual Cajun surnames
LINK
We have one family surname that never shows up on those list. I don't know a ton on that family line going back before Erath; wonder if it was just another French guy that married into a cajun family.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:13 pm to CitizenK
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There is a difference between CAjun and French. Cajun is specific to the diaspora from Acadie (now part of Nova Scotia)
Also not that a lot of supposedly French names are actually German but slightly changed They come mostly from along the Mississippi River
Yep, I’m sure most people think my last name is Cajun because it’s French and we’re from south Louisiana, but it’s really just French. Also, to your second point, it was actually German until my ancestors moved to Louisiana. For some reason they went with the French translation of my last name rather than the German translation, they were from the Alsace–Lorraine region of France that flip flopped between German and French control at different times.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 9:32 pm to CitizenK
diaspora included areas around eastern Quebec (province) and PEI, too
I had peeps from Quebec.
I had peeps from Quebec.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 10:14 pm to CitizenK
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Also not that a lot of supposedly French names are actually German but slightly changed They come mostly from along the Mississippi River
German Coast FTW!
Posted on 2/6/22 at 11:09 am to CitizenK
Lots of German or “Frenchified” German surnames in the river parishes: Dufrene/Dufresne, Matherne, etc.
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