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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 ...
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 ...
Dubois, DuBois, or Du Bois may refer to: People. Dubois (surname) ... This page was last edited on 7 November 2024, at 03:01 (UTC).
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).
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 ...
DuBois was born Jeannette Theresa Dubois in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [10] She was the daughter of Lillian Gouedy (1910–1984) and Gordon Adelbert Dubois (1915–1960) [11] [9] and was raised in Amityville, New York, on Long Island.
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
Baron Pierre Dubois Davaugour (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ dybwa davoɡuʁ]; before 1620–1664) was the French soldier and Governor of New France from 1661 to 1663. He was related to the old family who were counts and dukes of Penthièvre in Brittany .