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Pagamqais Family Name

Last updated Jan-2009
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Probable Origins & Usage

  • probably Eastern Abenaki [Day]
  • pagamke or pékan - fisher, black cat [Day]
  • found only as a family name

Spellings & Alternate Names

  • Pagamcais
  • Pagamquais
  • Paguanquois
  • Pagamka

Places Family is Found

  • Odanak
  • Bécancour

Earliest Occurrences of the Name

  • 1822-1829 Marie Pagamqais listed at Odanak.
  • 1823 Joseph Marie Pagamquais signed a document for Bécancour.
  • 1829-1832 Jerome Pagamqais is listed at Odanak.
  • 1851 Jean Baptiste Pagamka is at Bécancour in the 1851 Federal Census. Other family records suggest he is the same man as Jean Baptiste Neptune in tribal census from 1841-1851.

Notes

The Penobscot Francis family had a common nickname of 'Fisher' and may be related.

Biographies, Photos, Artifacts, Genealogies, etc.

  • unknown or not yet researched
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Bécancour
Penobscot
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