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Early Origins of the Marguet family

The surname Marguet 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 Marguet family

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Marguet Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Marguerite, Margeride, Margaride, Margalide, Margerit, Marguerie, Marguery, Margry, Margrette, Margeridon, Marguerin, Margeron, Margulius, Margotin, Marguet and many more.

Early Notables of the Marguet family

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Marguet Ranking

In France, the name Marguet is the 3,489th most popular surname with an estimated 2,000 - 2,500 people with that name. 1


United States Marguet migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Marguet Settlers in United States in the 18th Century
  • Jean Marguet, aged 18, who arrived in Louisiana in 1719 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Marguet (post 1700) +

  • Jean Joseph Marguet, French Brigadier General during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1789 to 1815 3


  1. http://www.journaldesfemmes.com/nom-de-famille/nom/
  2. 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)
  3. Generals Who Served in the French Army during the Period 1789-1815. (Retrieved 2015, April 14) Jean Marguet. Retrieved from http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/c_frenchgenerals.html


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