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lafitte Name Meaning and History

French: topographic name for someone who lived near a boundary mark, Old French fitte (Late Latin fixta petra ‘fixed stone’, from the past participle of figere ‘to fix or fasten’), or habitational name from any of several places in western France named with this word.

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Distribution of lafitte Families in the US in 1920
Number of lafitte families
 14-26
 5-13		 1-4
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Threads: 27 - Messages: 109
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Lafittes - Shreveport, Mansfield and Houston @@scooke@utmb.edu 4
Jean Lafitte/grocer Roxannepen1 0
serching for marie lafitte k_courts 0
Last older member still alive. NancyOmi 11
Juanita Lafitte Duquesne GlendaF596 0
to locate relatives from Shreveport ,La Avis Marie Lafitte Taylor 13
LaFrance Family Roxannepen1 0
Lafitte's from Plain Dealing Shreveport Dana Barnett Farmer 9
Elias Lafitte jitterbug9 0
Lafitte in Avoyelles Parish jitterbug7 0
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