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desroches Name Meaning and History

French: topographic name for someone living among rocks, from the fused preposition and definite article des + the plural of French roche ‘rock’, or a habitational name from any of several places named with this word. In North America, this name has been confused with Laroche, and translated as Rock.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of desroches Families in the US in 1920
Number of desroches families
 14-26
 5-13		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 51 - Messages: 198
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DESROCHES FAMILY, QUEBEC, CANADA cogginpauladavid 5
Hubert/Marie Albina Desroches/Holyoke Mass DouglasCron 12
desroches from tignish prince edward island steelraiders 3
Frederick DesRoches Lesley Rousselle 5
Desroches Family/ Waterbury Connecticut in 1900 pcron1 0
family history gary desroche 23
Desroche in Garyville, LA Isabelle 2
Alexandre (Alexander) Desroches sallogan 0
Desroches Alpha gastondupuis1 1
Leo Desroches, 1925 dlamoureux76 1
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