Maurin History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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The name Maurin was spawned from the landscape of northern France known as Normandy during the Middle Ages. It comes from the popular Old French given name Maurice.

Early Origins of the Maurin family

The surname Maurin was first found in Normandy (French: Normandie), the former Duchy of Normandy, where the family has held a family seat from ancient times.

The most unusual descendant of this family was Simon Morin, a visionary, who proclaimed himself as the Son of God and as a result was burned alive in 1663. Several essays were written on him. Two other well known members were Etienne (1625-1700), who was an Orientalist and a Calvinist minister, and Abbot Louis Morin (1636-1715), who was a respected physician and botanist, and a member of the Academy of the Sciences.

Pierre Morin was born in Normandy in 1639. He came to New France and married Marie Martin at Port-Royal, Acadia in 1661. They eventually settled in Beaubassin, Quebec, where Pierre died in 1690. Pierre and Marie had at least twelve children together that carried on the family name of Morin. 1

Early History of the Maurin family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Maurin research. Another 87 words (6 lines of text) covering the years 1484, 1499, 1583, 1591, 1630, 1642, 1656, 1659, 1677, 1702 and 1745 are included under the topic Early Maurin History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Maurin Spelling Variations

The many different spellings of French surnames can be partially explained by the use of local dialects and by the influence of other languages during the early development of the French language. As a result of these linguistic and cultural influences, the name Maurin is distinguished by a number of regional variations. The many spelling variations of the name include Morin, Morins, Morrin, Morrins, Morain, Morains, Morrain, Morrains, Maurin, Maurrin, Maurain, Maurrain, Moren, Morren, Morein, Morrein, de Morin and many more.

Early Notables of the Maurin family

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Maurin Ranking

In the United States, the name Maurin is the 14,832^nd most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 2 However, in France, the name Maurin is ranked the 408^th most popular surname with an estimated 10,415 people with that name. 3

Maurin migration to the United States +

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 Maurin were prominent in social, cultural, religious and political affairs in France and New France. Amongst the settlers in North America with this distinguished name Maurin were

Maurin Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

Pierre Maurin, aged 28, who landed in Louisiana in 1719 4

Maurin Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

E Maurin, who arrived in Mississippi in 1855 4

Contemporary Notables of the name Maurin (post 1700) +

Antoine Maurin, French Divisional General during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1789 to 1815 5

Citations +

Olivier, Reginald L. Your Ancient Canadian Family Ties. Logan: The Everton Publishers, Inc., P.O. Box 368, 1972. Print
"What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
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)
Generals Who Served in the French Army during the Period 1789-1815. (Retrieved 2015, April 16) Antoine Maurin. Retrieved from http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/c_frenchgenerals.html