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Hello,
I don't have French"Accents" on my keyboard , but I ws wondering if on your "Agnes" there was usually one atop the "e"(it would usually start top left going down towards the right o the e.) My reasonning is in old French language, using an "s" after an "e" would actually replace an accent , however it would usually replace an"aigu" accent which goes the opposite direction which would sound the word differently.Agnes which the "grave accent" usually is a lady's (first)name and would be pronounced -A-(like the A sound in Bat)and -ng (like eng) and -yes. Now if the "s" was used to replace the other accent ,it would be pronounced -A(same as in Bat)-ng(eng) -yay(like in Day)which would change the meaning to "Native" .The proper French spelling for that is usually "Agnier".The word was mainly used 300-400years ago in New-France.If you are in North America, that would be interesting to investigate that possibility.I checked for you other "dit" names (which are like aliases or A.K.A.s) The only one I found (so far)for Agnes was in Tanguay's Genealogical Dictionary,and is "Laguerre"(The war).I looked under Laguerre's aliases, and found Benoit,Dubois and a few more.Dit names mainly came about when French soldiers came to New France, they often took fanciful nicknames from anything like "The terror" to "the Lover" to better identify themselves in their units.they also came about as a means to differenciate between branches of the same large family, as French-Canadians usually had many off-springs.The names sometimes represented an attribute of the person, or was a mother's name or even a place of origin, or sometimes representative of where they dwelled (for instance Deschenes=of the Oaks) etc.I hope this helps you.H.
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