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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : metonymic occupational name for a maker and seller of woolen cloth, from a derivative of Old French drap ‘cloth’.
  • A family of this name from Poitou had settled in Île d’Orléans, Quebec, by 1669.

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