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Subject: Re: [PIATT] Piatt name
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 16:07:09 US/Eastern

Thanks Liz for the information. Interesting that Rene would pick Piat as a new
name. I wonder if he was particularly pious in as in the nomitive form or if
the name comes from pieux mensonge which is a white lie. Your magpie theory
might be true as well. I translated this. Please excuse any mistakes, I am a
bit rusty.

For those who do not read French:

Milton Rubincam in the Rubincam Family Ancestry, found in the Trenton, NJ
> Historical Collection cites 3 sources for the family name Piatt:
>
> Albert Dauzat: Dictionnaire Etymologie de Noms de Famille et Prenoms de
> France (1951)
Albert Dauzat (author): Etymological(linguistic changes) in the Family and
Given Names of France
> p. 481: PIAT, n. de fam. anc. n. de bapt. de sait Piat (en latin
> Piatus, Piato, or Piator; de pius, pieux), ne in Italie, apotre de
> Tournaissie au IIIe s. et martyr. Matronymme Piatte; dim. Piaoton.

Piat, ancient(could be ancestral) family name. Baptismal Name. know as Piat (in
Latin Piatus, Piato, or Piator; from pious(L, pieux (f)), not Italian, apostle
and matyr at the turn of the 3rd century. Married name Piatte; diminuative
Piaoton (believe this should be Piaton).
>
> Paul Chapuy: Origine des Noms Patronymiques Francais (donnant ix l'etymologie
> de 10,000 noms de famille) (1934):

Paul Chapuy: Origin of Patronymic(names derived from the father ie Johnson)
French Names (issue IX of the etymology of 10,00 family names)(1934):

> p. 269: PIAT - St. Piat, pretre. ---N. L. St-Piat (Eure-et-Loire).

p. 269: PIAT - St. Piat, priest. ---N. L. (could be place of birth) St-Piat (
Eure-et-Loire)

> N.E. Dionne, LL.D., M.D.: Les Canadiens-Francais. Origines des Familles
> Emigrees de France, d'Espagne, de Suisse, etc., pour venir se fixer au
> Canada, depuis la fondation de Quebec jusqu'a ces derniers Temps (1914):

N.E. Dionne, LLD MD: The French Canadians. Origin of Emigre Families from
France, from Spain, from Switzerland, etc. (to have) arrived and be established
in Canada since the founding of Quebec to the present.

> p.482: PIAT.---Pia, comme de Pyrenees-Orientales, arr. de Perpignan.
> Piat, petit de la Pie.

p. 482: PIAT. ---Pia, as from from the Pyrenees-Orientales (Eastern Pyranees
mountains), came from Perpignan (city)

Piat, small magpie


>
> In another source, it said that Piat is French for magpie. Maybe Rene
> Fleurry talked so much he was call Rene Piatt aka Fleurry.
>
> I will bring the Rubincam Family material I copied to the Piatt Conference in
> June so that you can see the proper French apostrophes and marks.
>
> Liz Branstead
>
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