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
When my aunt gave me that picture, more than twenty years ago, I couldn’t believe that he was my great-great-grandfather Charles Tourville, born in Lachenaie, in 1840, as I knew he was a carpenter. I then thought he looked so much like a notary on that picture. A closer observation reveals he actually had the same physical features as his sister Elmire. When my uncle died about ten years ago, I inherited a lot of funeral cards, including Charles Tourville’s. Well, it was him indeed. Dear aunt, please accept my apologies for having doubted you!
I must confess Blanche is one of my favourite given names. And I adore this picture of Blanche Tourville Brown—Peter Ovide Tourville and Anna Schenot’s elder daughter—born in Nebraska in 1899, herein appearing with her two daughters, Nadine and Betty Jean, born in 1919 and 1922 respectively. The first time I saw it, I couldn’t help thinking of 
Oops, breaking my own rules! Adolida was my maternal grandmother, not a Tourville. Her first name was chosen by her illiterate mother, likely after an actress. I was told she hated it. Catholic sisters didn’t like it either as it was not a saint’s first name. “What kind of parents do you have? A name like Table or Chair wouldn’t have made any difference!” Well, she was not the only one named like this. I found four others in the 1921 Canadian Census (two of them were born the same year as my grandmother). Do you know any Adolidas?
As you know, we have identified three children from 
The scene takes place in the Notary Public Joseph Turgeon’s office on March 10, 1789. Marie-Dorothée, 
First day on the road today on my Vermont Research Trip!