Labatt History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Origins Available:
France

Early Origins of the Labatt family

The surname Labatt was first found in Languedoc, in the south of France, where the family has been a prominent family for centuries, and held a family seat with lands and manor. The family were well established in the region of Nimes and Toulouse and several members of the family distinguished themselves through their contributions toward the community in which they lived and were rewarded with lands, titles and letters patent confirming their nobility.

Early History of the Labatt family

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Labatt Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Labat, Labatt, Labate, Labatte, Labatx, Labats, Bat, Batt and many more.

Early Notables of the Labatt family

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Labatt migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Labatt Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Abraham Jacob Labatt, who landed in Iowa in 1865 1

Contemporary Notables of the name Labatt (post 1700) +

Leonard Labatt (1838-1897), Swedish dramatic tenor
John Sackville Labatt (1880-1952), president of the Labatt brewing company and a prominent kidnapping victim
Arthur Sackville Labatt OC (b. 1934), Canadian chancellor of the University of Western Ontario (2004-2008) and made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1996
John Kinder Labatt (1803-1866), Irish-Canadian businessman and founder of the Labatt Brewing Company

Citations +

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)