Laforest Family History
- Laforest Name Meaning
- French: topographic name for someone who lived in or near a royal forest, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper or worker in one, from Old French forest, with the definite article la. Unlike modern French forêt, forest was not simply a word for extensive woodland, but referred specifically to large, partly or mainly wooded areas reserved by law for the king and his nobles to hunt in. Americanized form of French La Forêt, a modern spelling of 1, here translated into English with the article left intact. Compare Lafontaine.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 78,832 Historical Documents with Laforest on Ancestry
- 30,355 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 12,603 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,179 Military Records
- 1,043 Immigration Records
- 33,652 Member Trees
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Number of Laforest families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Laforest families
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25 - 47 9 - 24 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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