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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : perhaps an occupational name, derived from testre, tétre, variants of tistre ‘to weave’. This name has been Americanized as Roe or Rowe.
  • A Tetreault from the Poitou region of France is documented as Tétreau or Tétrault in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, in 1663. A secondary surname <xref>Ducharme</xref> is documented in 1700.

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