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![Show Contents]() Boisot History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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The surname Boisot is a ancient French name from Brittany (French: Bretagne). It was a name given to a person who was a boissel, a person who measured corn in the market or someone who made bushel baskets for corn. It is important to realize that wheat was called corn in the medieval period, therefore a boissel would have been working with grain, not maize. Early Origins of the Boisot familyThe surname Boisot was first found in Auvergne and Bas-Limousin where they are recorded as an ancient family with lands and estates. René Dubois, born in 1630, travelled from Poitou, France to Quebec in the 17th century. Along with his wife, Anne-Julienne (née Dumont), they completed their home in Quebec on 25th November 1665. Together they had eight children and now have ancestors all throughout Canada. 1 Early History of the Boisot familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Boisot research. Another 227 words (16 lines of text) covering the years 1290, 1346, 1447, 1529, 1584, 1604, 1638, 1656, 1694 and 1723 are included under the topic Early Boisot History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Boisot Spelling VariationsSpelling variations of this family name include: Dubois, du Bois, Duboie, Duboi, Duboy, Duboys, Duboit, Dubbois, Dubboie, Dubboi, Dubboy, Dubboys, Dubboit and many more. Early Notables of the Boisot familyNotable amongst the family was - Jean-Baptiste Boisot (1638-1694), (Abbé Boisot), a French abbot, bibliophile and scholar notable
Migration of the Boisot familySome of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Dubois, aged 42; who settled in Boston in 1822; Abraham Dubois who settled in Pennsylvania in 1732; François Dubois who settled in Louisiana in 1719.
- Olivier, Reginald L. Your Ancient Canadian Family Ties. Logan: The Everton Publishers, Inc., P.O. Box 368, 1972. Print
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