Desbois Surname HistoryThe surname Desbois is a ancient French name from Brittany (French: Bretagne). It was a name given to a person who was a boissel, a person who measured corn in the market or someone who made bushel baskets for corn. It is important to realize that wheat was called corn in the medieval period, therefore a boissel would have been working with grain, not maize. Early Origins of the Desbois familyThe surname Desbois was first found in Auvergne and Bas-Limousin where they are recorded as an ancient family with lands and estates. René Dubois, born in 1630, travelled from Poitou, France to Quebec in the 17th century. Along with his wife, Anne-Julienne (née Dumont), they completed their home in Quebec on 25th November 1665. Together they had eight children and now have ancestors all throughout Canada. 1 Early History of the Desbois familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Desbois research. Another 227 words (16 lines of text) covering the years 1290, 1346, 1447, 1529, 1584, 1604, 1638, 1656, 1694 and 1723 are included under the topic Early Desbois History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Desbois Spelling VariationsSpelling variations of this family name include: Dubois, du Bois, Duboie, Duboi, Duboy, Duboys, Duboit, Dubbois, Dubboie, Dubboi, Dubboy, Dubboys, Dubboit and many more. Early Notables of the Desbois familyNotable amongst the family was François Dubois (1529-1584), a French Huguenot painter; Jean Dubois the Elder (1604-1694), the French landscape painter and painter to the king; Jean-Baptiste Boisot (1638-1694), (Abbé... Desbois RankingIn France, the name Desbois is the 575th most popular surname with an estimated 8,172 people with that name. 2 Migration of the Desbois familySome of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Dubois, aged 42; who settled in Boston in 1822; Abraham Dubois who settled in Pennsylvania in 1732; François Dubois who settled in Louisiana in 1719.
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