Chasse History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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The noble surname Chasse originated in the region of Maine, in France. Chasse is a topographic surname, which is a type of hereditary surname. Topographic names were given to a person who resided near a physical feature such as a hill, stream, church, or type of tree. Habitation names form the other broad category of surnames that were derived from place-names. They were derived from pre-existing names for towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads. Other local names are derived from the names of houses, manors, estates, regions, and entire counties. As a general rule, the greater the distance between individuals and their homelands, the larger the territory they were named after. For example, people who only moved to another parish would be known by the name of their original villages, while people who migrated to a different country were often known by the name of a region or country from which they came.

Early Origins of the Chasse family

The surname Chasse was first found in Maine, where the family took its name in early times from Chassé, a village in the department of Sarthe, in the district of Mamers.

Early History of the Chasse family

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Chasse Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Chassé, Chassay, Chassaye, Chassey, Chasset, Chassériau, Chassériot, Chassérieau, Chasériaud, Chassériaut, Chassériaux, Chaisson and many more.

Early Notables of the Chasse family

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Chasse Ranking

In the United States, the name Chasse is the 5,629^th most popular surname with an estimated 4,974 people with that name. 1 However, in Quebec, Canada, the name Chasse is ranked the 587^th most popular surname. 2

Chasse migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Chasse Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Eugenio Chasse, aged 42, who arrived in New Orleans, La in 1846 3

Chasse migration to Canada +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Chasse Settlers in Canada in the 18th Century

Jean Chassé, who married Marie-Joseph Migneau in Kamouraska, Quebec in 1735
Jean Chasse, son of Sébastien and Élisabeth, who married Marie-Louise-Angélique Asselin, daughter of Louis and Marie-Angélique, in Kamouraska, Quebec on 1st August 1757 4
Jean-Baptiste Chasse, son of Jean and Marie-Josephte, who married Élisabeth Levasseur, daughter of Pierre and Geneviève, in Kamouraska, Quebec on 24th January 1763 4
Jean-Baptiste Chassé, who married Anne Pinet in Kamouraska, Quebec in 1785
Clément Chasse, son of Jean and Marie-Louise-Angélique, who married Marie-Anne Pelletier, daughter of Charles and Marie-Anne, in Kamouraska, Quebec on 23rd September 1787 4
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Contemporary Notables of the name Chasse (post 1700) +

Steven Chasse, American Democratic Party politician, Alternate Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Iowa, 2008 5
David Henri Chassé, French Divisional General during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1789 to 1815 6
David Hendrik Chassé (1765-1849), Dutch soldier

Citations +

"What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
"The first 1,000 family names by rank, Quebec (in French only)" Institut de la statistique du Quebec, https://statistique.quebec.ca/en/document/family-names-in-quebec/tableau/the-first-1000-family-names-by-rank-quebec
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)
Internoscia, Arthur E., and Claire Chevrier. Dictionnaire National des Canadiens Français 1608-1760. Vol. 1, Institut Drouin, 1958.
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, December 8) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html
Generals Who Served in the French Army during the Period 1789-1815. (Retrieved 2015, February 12) David ChassÃ©. Retrieved from http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/c_frenchgenerals.html