About the Grand'Maison surname
The surname Grand'Maison is associated with a patronymic formation. The -son ending traditionally indicates descent, with the sense “son of.”. The surname may originally have expressed descent before becoming fixed as a hereditary family name. The apostrophe is part of the canonical form of Grand'Maison. Historical records and indexes may nevertheless omit or normalize this punctuation differently. In the normalization used for some LAFRANCE searches, the surname is also matched through the form “grandmaison”; this search variant can be useful when accents, spaces, or punctuation differ.
Pronunciation:
Grand-mèj-seun/ɡʁandmɛjsœn/