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Where did the French Bourgeois family come from? What is the French Bourgeois family crest and coat of arms? When did the Bourgeois family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Bourgeois family history?
The early French language of the northwestern region known as Britanny is the soil from which the many generations of the Bourgeois family have grown. The name Bourgeois was given to a member of the family who was a person known as a freeman. The name Bourgeois is derived from the Old French word bourgeois, which in medieval times was used to refer to the free men of a town. Free-man were those whose status was between the noble classes and the serfs who were obligated to work of the feudal estates of the lords.
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There were a great number of spelling variations in French surnames. One reason for this was the wide variety of cultural influences present in France during the early development of the French language. The many spelling variations of the name include Bourgeois, Bourgois, Bourgeoys, Bourgeot, Le Bourgeois, de Bourgeois, Bourjois, Bourgès, Bourgeix and many more.First found in Brittany, where the family first originated and maintained their status as one of the more distinguished families of the region.
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This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Bourgeois research. Another 322 words(23 lines of text) covering the years 1437, 1507, 1663, 1666, 1671, 1711, 1808, 1809, 1810, 1811, 1851, and 1857 are included under the topic Early Bourgeois History in all our PDF Extended History products.
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This is a small excerpt from our full listing of settlers for the name Bourgeois. Our PDF Extended History provide the complete listing from our dbase of over 500,000 settlers!
In 1643, 109 years after the first landings by Cartier, there were only about 300 people in Quebec. Migration was slow. The fur trade attracted migrants, both noble and commoner. By 1675, there were 7000 French in Quebec. By the same year the French Acadian presence in the Maritimes had reached 500. The French founded Lower Canada, thus becoming one of the two great founding nations of Canada. The family name Bourgeois has made many distinguished contributions in France and New France to the world of science, culture, religion, and education. Amongst the settlers in North America with this distinguished name Bourgeois were
Bourgeois Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century
- Michel Bourgeois, who arrived in South Carolina in 1755
- Claude Bourgeois, who settled in Massachusetts in 1755
- Claude Bourgeois, who arrived in Massachusetts in 1755-1768
- Pierre Bourgeois, who arrived in South Carolina in 1755
- M. Bourgeois, who settled in Massachusetts in 1761
Bourgeois Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- Alexander Bourgeois, who arrived in Pike County, Indiana in 1867
- Alexander Bourgeois, who arrived in Pike County, Ind in 1867
- Henry Bourgeois, who landed in Pike County, Ind in 1868
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- Louise Bourgeois (b. 1911), American (French-born) sculptor
- Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois (1851-1925), French statesman, member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague (1903–1925), who won the 1920 Nobel Peace Prize
- Brigadier-General Jean Bourgeois (1892-1981), French Commanding Officer during World War II
- Derek "David" Bourgeois (b. 1941), English composer
- Diane Bourgeois (b. 1949), Canadian teacher and politician, Member of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec (2000-)
- Paulette Bourgeois (b. 1951), Canadian children's author, best known as the creator of the Franklin books
- Nathalie Bourgeois, professor at the School of Electronics and Physical Sciences,University of Surrey
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- Colletta, John P. They Came In Ships. Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1993. Print.
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- Vaillancourt, Emile. La Conquete du Canada par les Normands. Biographie de la premiere generation Normande du Canada. Montreal: G. Ducharme, 1930. Print.
- Matthews, John. Matthews' American Armoury and Blue Book. London: John Matthews, 1911. Print.
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The Bourgeois Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Bourgeois 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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