The surname Bosques was first found in Essex where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor. The Saxon influence of English history diminished after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The language of the courts was French for the next three centuries and the Norman ambience prevailed. But many more family surnames would arrive from the continent after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in the reign of Louis XIV and this Huguenot family name was first referenced in the year 1685 when John and David Bosanquet came to England from their native Languedoc in the south of France and settled in Forest House in Essex.
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Spelling variations of this family name include: Bosanquet, Bosanket, Bosanqet, Bosquet and others.
Notable in the family at this time was Charles Bosanquet (1769-1850), English governor of the South Sea Company, "member of a Huguenot family of successful London merchants, and was the second son of Samuel Bosanquet, of...
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Some of the Bosques family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
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Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Many settlers were recorded from the mid 17th century in the great migration from Europe. Migrants settled in the eastern seaboard from Newfoundland, to Maine, to Virginia, the Carolinas, and to the islands..