A Canadian Family

“Celebrate Your Name” Week

Early this morning I was visiting Amanda Elizabeth’s

A Tale of Two Ancestors

site when I came across her post about her first name.  Apparently I’m just in time for Celebrate Your Name Week which takes place this first week of March! So here goes. The three names on my baptismal certificate are Marie, Evelyn and Yvonne and there’s a special significance to each one.

My Marie name appears first on my baptismal certificate, as it did on my mothers’ and grandmothers’ records. This is a naming practice in my Quebec French-Canadian, Catholic family where our women have Marie before their name as a sign of respect for the Virgin Mary, mother of Christ.

My Evelyn name is for my maternal grandmother – Melvina Eveline Luce of Bathurst, New Brunswick.  I talked about her in Mamma-mia, I’ve got an M-line!and also in  A Canadian Family M-Line: Eveline Melvina Luce 

And finally, Yvonne honours my grandmother who descends from the Acadian Jacques “dit la Rosette” Leger. See: Our LEGER direct lineage

Are there any other Maries, Evelyns or Yvonnes out there?

Or anyone else with similar naming practices?

Related Posts:

March 7, 2009 Posted by Evelyn Yvonne Theriault | . | 6 Comments