Bouquet History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Origins Available:
England
France

Bouquet is a name of Anglo-Saxon origin and came from the baptismal name Buchard, a variant of Burchard.

Early Origins of the Bouquet family

The surname Bouquet was first found in Lincolnshire, where they held a family seat from ancient times.

Early History of the Bouquet family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Bouquet research. Another 219 words (16 lines of text) covering the years 1150, 1207, 1273, 1500, 1547, 1669, 1689 and 1748 are included under the topic Early Bouquet History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Bouquet Spelling Variations

Spelling variations in names were a common occurrence before English spelling was standardized a few hundred years ago. In the Middle Ages, even the literate spelled their names differently as the English language incorporated elements of French, Latin, and other European languages. Many variations of the name Bouquet have been found, including Bockett, Bocket, Bocard, Bocardi, Bochard, Bockard, Bokett, Bucard, Buchard, Bucket and many more.

Early Notables of the Bouquet family

Notables of this surname at this time include:

Philip Bouquett (1669-1748), was an English Hebrew professor, educated at Westminster School, whence he was elected in 1689 to a scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge. 1

Bouquet Ranking

In France, the name Bouquet is the 411^st most popular surname with an estimated 10,257 people with that name. 2

Bouquet migration to the United States +

Families began migrating abroad in enormous numbers because of the political and religious discontent in England. Often faced with persecution and starvation in England, the possibilities of the New World attracted many English people. Although the ocean trips took many lives, those who did get to North America were instrumental in building the necessary groundwork for what would become for new powerful nations. Among the first immigrants of the name Bouquet, or a variant listed above to cross the Atlantic and come to North America were :

Bouquet Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

Henry Bouquet, who landed in Maryland in 1666-1750 3

Bouquet Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

Jeanne Bouquet, who landed in New York in 1705 3
Jacob Bouquet, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1743 3
Peter Bouquet, who arrived in South Carolina in 1744 3
Philip Bouquet, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1747 3
Henri Louis Bouquet, who arrived in America in 1756 3
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Contemporary Notables of the name Bouquet (post 1700) +

Michel Bouquet (1925-2022), French stage and film actor who appeared in more than 100 films from 1947 to 2020, Best Actor European Film Award for Toto the Hero in 1991 and two Best Actor Césars for How I Killed My Father (2001) and The Last Mitterrand (2005)
Henry Bouquet (1719-1765), British army officer, born at Rolle, in the canton of Berne, Switzerland 4
Carole Bouquet (b. 1957), French actress best known for her role as the Bond girl Melina Havelock in the 1981 movie For Your Eyes Only
Anne Bouquet (b. 1952), French diplomat, High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia
Martin Bouquet (1685-1754), French historian

Historic Events for the Bouquet family +

HMS Dorsetshire

Peter Vivian Bouquet (d. 1945), British Lieutenant Engineer aboard the HMS Dorsetshire when she was struck by air bombers and sunk; he died in the sinking 5

Citations +

Smith, George (ed), Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1885-1900. Print
http://www.journaldesfemmes.com/nom-de-famille/nom/
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)
Wikisource contributors. "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900." Wikisource . Wikisource , 4 Jun. 2018. Web. 5 Feb. 2019
Force Z Survivors HMS Dorsetshire Crew List, (Retrieved 2018, February 13th), https://www.forcez-survivors.org.uk/biographies/listdorsetshirecrew.html