I have much admiration for Doralice Tourville. My great-grand-aunt, born in 1855, left Lachenaie with her family to settle in Montréal in 1862. Shortly thereafter, her father passed away. For years, the family moved from one tenement to another. Doralice was a tobacco cutter at MacDonald Tobacco as was her sister Elmire. At a time when fewer than 20% of the Montrealers owned their house, with her salary and her sister’s, she managed to help her mother buy a house. This house was owned by the Tourvilles for about a century.

Statistics

Letter D:  only 2% for the Hubou-Tourvilles’ first names.

Not many choices: besides Doralice, several women in Québec were named Delphine or Donalda. For the men, there is one Damase, one Dominique and one David. In the States, Donald and Dennis are very popular first names for the men and Dorothy for the women.

Kind of Funny

Well, do you find any of these first names funny?

The 2016 ChallengeAZ is proposed by Sophie Boudarel of La Gazette des ancêtres