On Monday, October 13, 1997 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Loic de Saint Pol wrote:
SJhaney wrote:
Aloha from Hawaii! My gr-gr grandfather was Antonio Marques. He married
Emilia Carolina Costa in the Azores. I always thought he was portuguese but
was just told from a gr-aunt he was French. I looked up the name and its
origin, and it comes from Languedoc. Does anyone know where this is in
France? And is Marques a French name? Thank you!Languedoc is a region in the south of France, which main city is
Montpellier. I think this could appear in your atlas.
Many french people in the south of france has names with hispanic
sound-like. There was a great immigration at all dates between these countries. Most of the time the name was modified to sound or spell more french-like. Marques may be a modification of an original marquez...
This is a very common name in all the south of france, good luck
Aloha from Paris
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