Tremblay
also Trembley, Du Tremblay
The aspen grove, and the commonest name in Quebec.
- Origin
- French
- Register
- French family
The seat of Tremblay
Seat vacantChief
No one leads the Tremblay community yet. When the movement opens, you can stand for its leadership, or help elect whoever does.
Current mission
No shared goal set yet. Once Tremblay has leadership, it sets the public focus: a restoration, a gathering, a real-world project that helps its own.
The Tremblay clan is being rebuilt. Join the waiting list for the movement today, and you help decide who leads it and what it does.
Help rebuild the Tremblay clan →What does the Tremblay name mean?
Topographic, a place grown with trembles, aspens, the tree whose leaves shiver in the least wind (Latin tremulus). A modest French surname; in Quebec, the most common of all.
The history of Tremblay
In France, Tremblay is an ordinary place-name, the shivering aspen wood. Its extraordinary career happened across the Atlantic. A single settler, Pierre Tremblay, came from Perche to New France around 1647 and married Ozanne Achon; from that one couple, by the astonishing fertility of the early colony, descend essentially all the world's Tremblays.
It is today the single most common surname in Quebec, a province where a few thousand 17th-century settlers became a nation of millions. No name is a truer emblem of how a handful of French families became a people.
The castles of the homeland
The great strongholds of the homeland, look one up, see what it looked like in its prime, and recreate it to explore.
BastilleDemolished · prime 1380
Guédelon CastleRestored · prime 1250
Château de VincennesRestored · prime 1660All castles in France → · Strongest castles in France → · Castles of Europe
Play As Your Clan
Hold a real castle against whatever you choose to send at it, take a ship out in her own service years, or stand at the shoulder of someone the record remembers. The chronicler sets the scene; the deeds are yours.