The duplessis Surname
duplessis Name Meaning and History
French: topographic name for someone who lived by a quickset fence,
Old French pleis (from Latin plexum past participle of
plectere ‘plait’, ‘weave’), with fused preposition and definite
article du ‘from the’. This is a Huguenot name, well
established in South Africa and elsewhere.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Louis Auguste Duplessis-b. mar 1847, Nieve, France | Ellie | 9 |
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| Martin Duplessis of Plaquemines, Parish, La. |
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| du Plessis, Alwyn / Pieter / Jacobus Hercules |
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