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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : habitational name, with the preposition d(e), for someone from a place in Charente named Aigre.
  • Jetté tells us that a Jacques Daigre was condemned to be hanged for theft in Quebec in 1665, but was spared when he agreed to become a hangman himself.

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