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  2. Dubois (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Dubois (/ d ʊ ˈ b w ɑː / duu-BWAH; also spelled DuBois or Du Bois, from the French of the woods/forest) is a French surname. Notable people with the surname ...

  3. W. E. B. Du Bois - Wikipedia

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    William Du Bois's paternal great-grandfather was James Du Bois of Poughkeepsie, New York, an ethnic French-American of Huguenot origin who fathered several children with enslaved women. [9] One of James' mixed-race sons was Alexander, who was born on Long Cay in the Bahamas in 1803; in 1810, he immigrated to the United States with his father ...

  4. Dubois - Wikipedia

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    Dubois, DuBois, or Du Bois may refer to: People. Dubois (surname) ... This page was last edited on 7 November 2024, at 03:01 (UTC).

  5. List of irregularly spelled English names - Wikipedia

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    Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs , which are written differently but pronounced the same).

  6. Charles Dubois - Wikipedia

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    Charles Dubois is the name of: Charles Dubois (treasurer) (died 1740), East India Company treasurer and botanist; Charles Frédéric Dubois (1804–1867), Belgian naturalist; Charles-Victor Dubois (1832–1869), Belgian composer and harmonium player; Charles du Bois de Vroylande (1835–1888), Belgian lawyer and politician

  7. List of place names of French origin in the United States

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    Guyandotte is the French spelling of the name of an Indian tribe also known as the Wyandot.) Marion County (named after Francis Marion, Revolutionary War officer of Huguenot descent) Montcalm (named for Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander in the French and Indian War). Ronceverte (Name is derived from two words meaning ...

  8. Category:Du Bois family - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Du Bois family" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... This page was last edited on 21 July 2024, at 03:13 (UTC).

  9. List of family name affixes - Wikipedia

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    For ease of use, the [i] in front of the last name, and the ending _ve, were dropped. If the last name ends in [a], then removing the [j] would give the name of the patriarch or the place, as in, Grudaj - j = Gruda (place in MM). Otherwise, removing the whole ending [aj] yields the name of founder or place of origin, as in Lekaj - aj = Lek(ë).