Pillot History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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England
France

The Pillot surname comes from the Old French word "pilot," meaning a "stake," or "pile."

Early Origins of the Pillot family

The surname Pillot was first found in Burgundy (French: Bourgogne), an administrative and historical region of east-central France where they held a family seat at Chantrans, and this main stem of the family became a representative of the Bourgogne aristocracy.

Some of the family were found in in Brittany, where the Pillets were Lords of Hericzonnais descended from Pierre, ennobled in 1435, father of Jean, Secretary of the duke.

Early History of the Pillot family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Pillot research. Another 84 words (6 lines of text) covering the years 1809 and 1877 are included under the topic Early Pillot History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Pillot Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Pilot, Pilott, Pilotte, Pillot, Pillott, Pillotte, Pillat, Pilat, Pillate, Pilett, Pilet, Pilette, Pillet, Pillett, Pillette, Piliot, Pilou, Pilote, Piliote, Pilioux, Pilliot, Pillod, Pylot, Pylott, Pylotte, Pyllot, Pyllott and many more.

Early Notables of the Pillot family

Notable amongst the family at this time was

Jean-Jacques Pillot, author of tracts on political science who became a member of the Revolution Commune 1809-1877

Pillot Ranking

In France, the name Pillot is the 1,246^th most popular surname with an estimated 4,510 people with that name. 1

Pillot migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Pillot Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Peter Pillot, who landed in Charleston, South Carolina in 1821 2
Andrew Peter Augustus Pillot, who arrived in Charleston, South Carolina in 1824 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Pillot (post 1700) +

Cooper Pillot (b. 1994), American teen actor
Luc Pillot (b. 1959), French sailor and Olympic champion
Pierre-Eugène Pillot, engineer and general delegate of associations in Paris

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)