Pasteur History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Early Origins of the Pasteur family

The surname Pasteur was first found in Normandy (French: Normandie), the former Duchy of Normandy, 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 Calvados 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 Pasteur family

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Pasteur Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Paster, Pasteur, Pastor, Pastore, Pastoureau, Pastorel, Pastre, Pastour, Pastor, Pasturel, Patureau, Pasturel, Paturet, Paturot, Pastere, Pastorr, Pasterr, Pastors and many more.

Early Notables of the Pasteur family

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Pasteur Ranking

In France, the name Pasteur is the 6,229^th most popular surname with an estimated 1,000 - 1,500 people with that name. 1

Pasteur migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Pasteur Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

Charles Pasteur, who arrived in Virginia in 1700 2
Jean Pasteur, who arrived in Virginia in 1700 2
Charles Pasteur, who settled in New York, NY in 1701
Jean Pasteur, who settled in New York, NY in 1701
James Pasteur, who landed in Virginia in 1754 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Pasteur (post 1700) +

Marie Pasteur (1826-1910), the wife of famous French chemist and bacteriologist Louis Pasteur
Olivier Pasteur (b. 1963), French ski mountaineer
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French microbiologist and chemist who confirmed the germ theory of disease and created the first vaccine for rabies, best known for developing a process to stop milk and wine from going sour which was later called pasteurization
Simon Pasteur (b. 1985), Cameroonian soccer player
Just Pasteur Sabatier, French Brigadier General during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1789 to 1815 3

Citations +

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, September 9) Just Sabatier. Retrieved from http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/c_frenchgenerals.html