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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from a diminutive of Forge, designating a blacksmith.
  • One family from Saintonge, France, had arrived in Varennes, Quebec, by 1681; another, from Poitiers, was in Boucherville by 1671; and a third, from Normandy, was in Quebec city by 1653.

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