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Verville is a French people, French and French Canadian surname which could mean: # ''towards the town'', from the French words ', meaning "towards", and ', meaning "town"; or # ''green town'', from the French ', meaning "green", and ', meaning "town". It can also be a variant of ''Vervelle'', which is derived from a word that means "metal keeper" or "ring through which a bolt is secured".Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, Verville (Merry Point, Virginia) is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Lancaster County, Virginia The surname may refer to: * Alfred V. Verville (1890–1970), an American aviation pioneer * Alphonse Verville (1864–1921), a Canadian politician and trade unionist * Elizabeth Verville, an American diplomat for the U.S. State Department * François Béroalde de Verville (Paris, 1556–1626), a French Renaissance novelist, poet and intellectual * Joseph-Achille Verville (1887–1937), a Canadian politician and Liberal ...
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French People
French people () are a nation primarily located in Western Europe that share a common Culture of France, French culture, History of France, history, and French language, language, identified with the country of France. The French people, especially the native speakers of langues d'oïl from northern and central France, are primarily descended from Roman people, Romans (or Gallo-Romans, western European Celts, Celtic and Italic peoples), Gauls (including the Belgae), as well as Germanic peoples such as the Franks, the Visigoths, the Suebi and the Burgundians who settled in Gaul from east of the Rhine after the fall of the Roman Empire, as well as various later waves of lower-level irregular migration that have continued to the present day. The Norsemen also settled in Normandy in the 10th century and contributed significantly to the ancestry of the Normans. Furthermore, regional ethnic minorities also exist within France that have distinct lineages, languages and cultures such ...
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French Canadian
French Canadians, referred to as Canadiens mainly before the nineteenth century, are an ethnic group descended from French people, French colonists first arriving in Canada (New France), France's colony of Canada in 1608. The vast majority of French Canadians live in the province of Quebec. During the 17th century, French settlers originating mainly from the west and north of France settled Canada. It is from them that the French Canadian ethnicity was born. During the 17th to 18th centuries, French Canadians expanded across North America and colonized various regions, cities, and towns. As a result, people of French Canadian descent can be found across North America. Between 1840 and 1930, many French Canadians emigrated to New England, an event known as the Quebec diaspora, Grande Hémorragie. Etymology French Canadians get their name from the Canada (New France), French colony of Canada, the most developed and densely populated region of New France during the period of Fr ...
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Vers
Vers may refer to: Places in France * Vers, Haute-Savoie, a commune in the Haute-Savoie ''département'' * Vers, Lot, a commune in the Lot ''département'' * Vers, Saône-et-Loire, a commune in the Saône-et-Loire ''département'' * Vers-en-Montagne, a commune in the Jura ''département'' * Vers-Pont-du-Gard, a commune in the Gard ''département'' * Vers-sous-Sellières, a commune in the Jura ''département'' * Vers-sur-Méouge, a commune in the Drôme ''département'' * Vers-sur-Selles, a commune in the Somme ''département'' Rivers *Vers (Lahn), a river of Hesse, Germany *Vers (Lot), a river of southern France, tributary of the Lot Other uses *Vers, an abbreviation for the trigonometric function versine *Vers, an abbreviation for versatile, commonly used in Western gay male culture *VERS, an acronym for Victorian Electronic Records Strategy, a system for records management *Vers, an alias for Carol Danvers Carol Susan Jane Danvers is a character app ...
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-ville
''Ville'' is a French word meaning "city" or "town", but its meaning in the Middle Ages was "farm" (from Gallo-Romance VILLA < Latin '''') and then "village". The derivative ''-ville'' is commonly used in names of cities, s and s, particularly throughout France, Canada and the United States.


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Vert
Vert or Verts may refer to: * Vert (heraldry), the colour green in heraldry * Vert (music producer) (born 1972), pseudonym of Adam Butler, an English music producer * Vert (river), in southern France * Vert (sport), a competition in extreme versions of BMX, snowboarding etc., held on a vert ramp * Vert, Landes, a commune in the Landes ''département'' in France * Vert, Yvelines, a commune in the Yvelines ''département'' in France * The Greens (France) ''(Les Verts)'', a political party * Lac Vert (other) or Vert Lake, the name of various lakes {{Disambiguation, geo ...
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Verville (Merry Point, Virginia)
Verville is a historic plantation house located near Merry Point, Lancaster County, Virginia. It was built about 1742, and is a -story, brick Colonial style dwelling. It has a single-pile, central-passage plan. The gambrel roof and all woodwork was changed to conform with Federal style tastes in the late-18th or early-19th century. an''Accompanying photo''/ref> Early history (Dale/Carter family) In 1668, Major Edward Dale purchased of land including a hill that overlooked the confluence of the east and west branches of the Corrotoman River, and in 1674 gave it and one "negro" as a wedding present to his eldest daughter Katherine and her new husband, Capt. Thomas Carter (d. 1700). Carter may have been related to planter Col. John Carter, who came from the same village and who in 1654 financed and sold land to Thomas Carter, who had paid tithes on 4 servants in 1653 and gained additional land in 1657 and 1661 for paying for the transportation of other persons to the colony ...
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National Register Of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Historic districts in the United States, districts, and objects deemed worthy of Historic preservation, preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value". The enactment of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in 1966 established the National Register and the process for adding properties to it. Of the more than one and a half million properties on the National Register, 95,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing property, contributing resources within historic district (United States), historic districts. For the most of its history, the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service (NPS), an agency within the United States Department of the Interior. Its goals are to ...
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Lancaster County, Virginia
Lancaster County is a county located on the Northern Neck in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population sits at 10,919. Its county seat is Lancaster. Located on the Northern Neck near the mouth of the Rappahannock River, Lancaster County is part of the Northern Neck George Washington Birthplace wine-growing region recognized by the United States as an American Viticultural Area. Lancaster County is the most densely populated county in the Northern Neck. The largest town in Lancaster County is Kilmarnock, Virginia. The county's area code is 804. History Lancaster County was established in 1651 from Northumberland and York counties, and large land patents (subject to terms including clearing and settlement) were issued that year. It was home to Robert King Carter in the 18th century, and remaining buildings from that time include Christ Church and St. Mary's, Whitechapel. Other historic attractions open to the public include the Lancaste ...
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Alfred V
Alfred may refer to: Arts and entertainment *''Alfred J. Kwak'', Dutch-German-Japanese anime television series * ''Alfred'' (Arne opera), a 1740 masque by Thomas Arne * ''Alfred'' (Dvořák), an 1870 opera by Antonín Dvořák *"Alfred (Interlude)" and "Alfred (Outro)", songs by Eminem from the 2020 album '' Music to Be Murdered By'' Business and organisations * Alfred, a radio station in Shaftesbury, England *Alfred Music, an American music publisher *Alfred University, New York, U.S. * The Alfred Hospital, a hospital in Melbourne, Australia People * Alfred (name) includes a list of people and fictional characters called Alfred * Alfred the Great (848/49 – 899), or Alfred I, a king of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons Places Antarctica * Mount Alfred (Antarctica) Australia * Alfredtown, New South Wales * County of Alfred, South Australia Canada * Alfred and Plantagenet, Ontario ** Alfred, Ontario, a community in Alfred and Plantagenet * Alfred Island, Nunavut * ...
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Alphonse Verville
Alphonse Verville (October 28, 1864 – June 20, 1930) was a Canadian politician and trade unionist. Born and raised in the Côte-Saint-Paul neighbourhood of Montreal, Verville was a plumber by trade. At the age of 18 he moved to Chicago and joined the International Plumbers' Union. He returned to Montreal in 1893 and worked to organize plumbers. He became leader of the plumbers' union in Montreal and in 1904 became president of the MTLC, Montreal's Trades and Labour Council. Verville served as president of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada from 1904 to 1910. Politically, Verville was an early advocate of the trade union movement running their own candidates for political office. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Labour candidate in a 1906 by-election in Maisonneuve, defeating a Liberal opponent, and was re-elected as a Labour MP in the 1908 and 1911 federal elections. Upon entering parliament he became a supporter of the Liberals and was oft ...
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Elizabeth Verville
Elizabeth Verville is an American civil servant in the Senior Executive Service (SES) who served as acting deputy assistant secretary of state (DAS) for international crime in the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. Verville led the U.S. delegations to the United Nations (UN) in developing multilateral treaties, such as the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC), which was passed in 2000 to combat transnational organized crime, and the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC). Prior to her role as acting DAS, she served on the National Security Council as director of global affairs for international crime, counternarcotics, and counterterrorism. She also previously served as deputy director of the first U.S. interagency office created to protect the nation's critical information infrastructure. Verville received a bachelor's degree from Duke University in 1961. She received an LLB from Columbia Law School in 1964. In the office ...
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François Béroalde De Verville
François Béroalde de Verville (27 April 1556 – 19–26 October 1626) was a French Renaissance novelist, poet and intellectual. He was born in Paris, the son of Matthieu Brouard (or Brouart), called "Béroalde", a professor of Agrippa d'Aubigné and Pierre de l'Estoile and a Huguenot; his mother, Marie Bletz, was the niece of the humanist and Hebrew scholar François Vatable (called "Watebled"). At the time of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, his family fled to Geneva (1573), but Béroalde returned to Paris in 1581. During the civil wars, Béroalde abjured Calvinism and joined the factions around Henri III of France (he may also have served in the army). In 1589 he moved to Tours (the French parlement fled here from 1589-1594), and became ''chanoine'' (canon) of the cathedral chapter of Saint Gatien, Tours, where he remained until his death. Works Béroalde had close ties to the intellectual and creative milieus of the late 16th century and early 17th century ...
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