Rene Genest dit Labarre

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<p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Though laBarre is a dit, not a surname, this from Wikipedia since its seems consistent with the note his marriage:</p>0; background: none;" title="French language" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language">French</a> surname la Barré has several quite distinct meanings. The name is originally derived from the old French word “barre”; this had two meanings in the ancient language. Firstly, “barre” signified “a pole” and may have been applied to an individual who made or sold such objects; on the other hand, the word also meant “the bar at a toll-house” and contemporaries of men who worked in such places may have referred to them in this manner. Thus it is clear that the name has an occupational origin, that is, it is based on the type of work the original bearer once did.</p>-height: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">It was not until the early <a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="Middle Ages" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages">Middle Ages</a> that surnames were first used to distinguish between numbers of people bearing the same personal name. With the growth of documentation in the later <a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="Middle Ages" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages">Middle Ages</a>, such names became essential, and a person, whose distinguishing name described his trade, his place of residence, his father’s name, or some personal characteristic, passed that name on to his children, and the surname became hereditary.</p>p;<a class="new" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #a55858; background: none;" title="Delabarre (page does not exist)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Delabarre&amp;action=edi...">Delabarre</a> and <a class="new" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #a55858; background: none;" title="Desbarres (page does not exist)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Desbarres&amp;action=edi...">Desbarres</a>. </p>