Beausejour Surname, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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The enchanting region of Bourgoigne was the historical homeland of the prominent surname Beausejour. Beausejour is a topographic surname, which is a type of hereditary surname. These were given to a person who resided near a physical feature such as a hill, stream, church, or type of tree. Habitation names form the other broad category of surnames that were derived from place-names. They were derived from pre-existing names for towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads. Other local names are derived from the names of houses, manors, estates, regions, and entire counties. As a general rule, the greater the distance between an individual and their homeland, the larger the territory they were named after. For example, a person who only moved to another parish would be known by the name of their original village, while people who migrated to a different country were often known by the name of a region or country from which they came.

Beausejour Early Origins

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The surname Beausejour was first found in Bourgogne.

Beausejour Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Beausejour, Beauséjour and others.

Beausejour Early History

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Beausejour Early Notables (pre 1700)

Notable amongst the family at this time was Paul Felix Beuvain de Beausejour, who dedicated his life to religion and became bishop of Carcassonne, a town in the region of Languedoc, just North of the Spanish border. Born much further North, in the town of Vesoul in 1839, Beausejour taught for...

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The Great Migration

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Beausejour Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

M. Beausejour, aged 25, who landed in Louisiana in 1719 ^[1]CITATION[CLOSE]
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)

Beausejour Settlers in Canada in the 18th Century

Jaques Beauséjour, who was married in 1704 in Chambalon, Quebec
Jean Beauséjour, who emigrated from France in 1708, at the age of 35, and settled in Montreal

Contemporary Notables of the name Beausejour (post 1700)

Jacques Beauséjour (b. 1939), Canadian teacher and politician, member of the Québec National Assembly from 1976-1985

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Citations

^ 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)

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Rupp, Daniel L. A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and Other Immigrants to Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776. Baltimore. Print.
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The Beausejour Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Beausejour Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.

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