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Pau Family Crest
Pau Family Crest
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Where did the French Pau family come from? What is the French Pau family crest and coat of arms? When did the Pau family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Pau family history?

The long and noble heritage behind the name of Pau first began in medieval France. Originally, the French people were known only by a single name. The process by which hereditary surnames were adopted in France is extremely interesting. Surnames evolved during the Middle Ages when people began to assume an extra name to avoid confusion and to further identify themselves. Many people, such as the Pau family, adopted the name of their occupation as their surname. However, an occupational name did not become a hereditary surname until the office or type of employment became hereditary. The surname Pau was an occupational name for a maker of clay and metal drinking and storage vessels deriving its origin from the Latin word "potus," meaning "to drink."

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Spelling variations of this family name include: Pot, Pots, Pote, Pots, Pôt, Pôts, Pôte, Pôtes, du Pot, de Pot, de la Pot, La Pot, De Paux, Paux, Paulx, Peaux, Peaulx, Peau, Paut, Pault, Peaut and many more.

First found in Berry, where the family has been located since early times.


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This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Pau research. Another 255 words(18 lines of text) covering the years 1250, 1396, 1430, 1461, 1477, and 1715 are included under the topic Early Pau History in all our PDF Extended History products.

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Another 27 words(2 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Pau Notables in all our PDF Extended History products.

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Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Pau Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century


  • Antonio Pau, who landed in Mississippi in 1845
  • Geeske T Pau, aged 23, arrived in New York, NY in 1855

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  4. De Ville, Winston. Gulf Coast Colonials, A Compendium of French Families in Early Eighteenth Century Louisiana. Baltimore, MD: Clearfield, 1999. Print.
  5. Best, Hugh. Debrett's Texas Peerage. New York: Coward-McCann, 1983. Print. (ISBN 069811244X).
  6. Vaillancourt, Emile. La Conquete du Canada par les Normands. Biographie de la premiere generation Normande du Canada. Montreal: G. Ducharme, 1930. Print.
  7. Colletta, John P. They Came In Ships. Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1993. Print.
  8. Bolton, Charles Knowles. Bolton's American Armory. Baltimore: Heraldic Book Company, 1964. Print.
  9. Filby, P. William and Mary K Meyer. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index in Four Volumes. Detroit: Gale Research, 1985. Print. (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8).
  10. Egle, William Henry. Pennsylvania Genealogies Scotch-Irish and German. Harrisburg: L.S. Hart, 1886. Print.
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The Pau Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Pau Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.

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