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

The prestigious surname Debay comes from the majestic region of Dauphiné, in France. Debay is a topographic surname, a form of hereditary surname, which was 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 an individual and their homeland, the larger the territory they were named after. For example, a person who only moved to another parish would be known by the name of their original village, while people who migrated to a different country were often known by the name of a region or country from which they came.

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Spelling variations of this family name include: Bai, Baie, Bay, Baye, Debai, De Bai, Debaie, De Baie, Debay, De Bay, Debaye, De Baye, Bayard, Bayart, Bayet, Bayol, Bayou, Bayoud and many more.

First found in Dauphiné, where the family was established in early times.


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This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Debay research. Another 395 words(28 lines of text) covering the years 1779, 1792, 1802, 1804, 1817, 1825, 1827, 1832, 1836, and 1851 are included under the topic Early Debay History in all our PDF Extended History products.

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Another 155 words(11 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Debay Notables in all our PDF Extended History products.

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Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Jacques Bayard, who married Marie Valade in Charlesbourg in 1694; François Bayard, who married Marie Faye in Trois-Rivières in 1711; Joseph Bayard, who married Madeleine Durivaux in 1749 in Quebec City.

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The Debay Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Debay 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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