Boisselier History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Origins Available:
France

Boisseau, which comes from the name Boissard, was originally a name given to a person that worked as a merchant and it was also used as a nickname for "un homme trapu", or in English, a "stocky man". 1

Early Origins of the Boisselier family

The surname Boisselier was first found in Normandy (French: Normandie), the former Duchy of Normandy, where the family held a family seat at the village of Beauce in the arrondisement of Blois. One source claims that the name Boisseau was seen with a noble family from Saintonge, a former French province on the central-west coast of France, that settled on the French owned Caribbean island of Martinique and maintained nobility in 1698. 2

Early History of the Boisselier family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Boisselier research. Another 61 words (4 lines of text) covering the years 1479, 1523, 1694, 1754 and 1758 are included under the topic Early Boisselier History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Boisselier Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Boisseau, Boissel, Boissard, Boisselet, Boisselat, Boissenet, Boissonneau and many more.

Early Notables of the Boisselier family

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Boisselier Ranking

In France, the name Boisselier is the 5,253^rd most popular surname with an estimated 1,000 - 1,500 people with that name. 3

Migration of the Boisselier family

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Claude Boisseau who settled in Louisiana in 1756; Jean Boisseau and his wife Marie Postel settled in Carolina in 1695; Pierre Boisseau settled in New York state in 1711.

Contemporary Notables of the name Boisselier (post 1700) +

Félix Boisselier the elder (1776-1811), French painter, brother of Antoine-Félix Boisselier
Julien Boisselier (b. 1970), French Lumiere Award winning actor
Brigitte Boisselier (b. 1956), also known as Brigitte Roehr, a French chemist and Raëlian religious leader, best known for her claim to have overseen the creation of the first human clone
Antoine-Félix Boisselier (1790-1857), French painter from Paris

Citations +

Dauzat, Albert, Morlet, Marie-Thérèse, Dictionaire Étymologique des Noms et Prénoms de France. Paris: Librairie Larousse, 1987. Print.
Hozier, Charles D, and Antoine Bachelin-Delforenne. État présent De La Noblesse française (1883-1887): Contenant Le Distionnaire De La Noblesse Contemporaine Et Larmorial général De France, Dapres Les Manuscrits De Ch. D Hozier. Librairie Des Bibliophiles, 1884. Print.
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