First found in Normandy where this distinguished family were anciently seated as important members of the aristocracy of that region. The first on record was Osmund Angevin, a Norman noble from L'Angevin in Normandy who joined Duke William in his conquest of England in 1066. In gratitude William granted the family of Angevyne or Angewyne large estates in Lincolnshire, where they were seated for several centuries.

Migration from France to New France or Quebec as it was now more popularly called, continued from France until it fell in 1759. By 1675, there were 7000 French in Quebec. By the same year the Acadian presence in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island had reached 500. In the treaty of Utrecht, the Acadians were ceded by France to Britain in 1713. In 1755, 10,000 French Acadians refused to take an oath of allegiance to England and were deported. They found refuge in Louisiana. In 1793, the remaining French in these provinces came under British rule. Meanwhile, in Quebec, the French race flourished, founding in Lower Canada, one of the two great solitudes which became Canada. Many of this distinguished family name L'Angevin were prominent in social, cultural, religious and political affairs in France and New France. Amongst the settlers in North America with this distinguished name L'Angevin were Zacharie Angevin, who settled in New York State in 1690; Pierre Angevin also settled in New York State in 1707; Daniel, Lewis, and Peter Angevine also settled there in 1710.

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