Maiden name would be nice - would make some kind of sense, at least...but his mother's name was Thomas. He named his daughter Blanche, so maybe they just had a thing for French-ish names. But yeah, the whole Deveraux-Orlando-Alvin-Zana string are really unusual names for the 1840s-50s!
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Date: 2010-06-28 06:15 pm (UTC)