Bouquet History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Early Origins of the Bouquet family

The surname Bouquet was first found in Normandy (French: Normandie), the former Duchy of Normandy, where the family has been a prominent family for centuries, and held a family seat with lands and manor. The family were well established in the region of Calvados and several members of the family distinguished themselves through their contributions toward the community in which they lived and were rewarded with lands, titles and letters patent confirming their nobility.

Early History of the Bouquet family

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Bouquet Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Boquet, Bocquet, Bouquet, Bochet, Bouchet, Boquel, Bocquel, Boquard, Bocard, Boccard, Boquart, Bocart, Boccart, Bocquant and many more.

Early Notables of the Bouquet family

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Bouquet Ranking

In France, the name Bouquet is the 411^st most popular surname with an estimated 10,257 people with that name. 1

Bouquet migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Bouquet Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

Henry Bouquet, who landed in Maryland in 1666-1750 2

Bouquet Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

Jeanne Bouquet, who landed in New York in 1705 2
Jacob Bouquet, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1743 2
Peter Bouquet, who arrived in South Carolina in 1744 2
Philip Bouquet, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1747 2
Henri Louis Bouquet, who arrived in America in 1756 2
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Contemporary Notables of the name Bouquet (post 1700) +

Michel Bouquet (1925-2022), French stage and film actor who appeared in more than 100 films from 1947 to 2020, Best Actor European Film Award for Toto the Hero in 1991 and two Best Actor Césars for How I Killed My Father (2001) and The Last Mitterrand (2005)
Carole Bouquet (b. 1957), French actress best known for her role as the Bond girl Melina Havelock in the 1981 movie For Your Eyes Only
Anne Bouquet (b. 1952), French diplomat, High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia
Martin Bouquet (1685-1754), French historian
Henry Bouquet (1719-1765), British army officer, born at Rolle, in the canton of Berne, Switzerland 3

Historic Events for the Bouquet family +

HMS Dorsetshire

Peter Vivian Bouquet (d. 1945), British Lieutenant Engineer aboard the HMS Dorsetshire when she was struck by air bombers and sunk; he died in the sinking 4

Citations +

http://www.journaldesfemmes.com/nom-de-famille/nom/
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
Wikisource contributors. "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900." Wikisource . Wikisource , 4 Jun. 2018. Web. 5 Feb. 2019
Force Z Survivors HMS Dorsetshire Crew List, (Retrieved 2018, February 13th), https://www.forcez-survivors.org.uk/biographies/listdorsetshirecrew.html