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![Show Contents]() Colle History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
Early Origins of the Colle familyThe surname Colle was first found in Champagne, where the family was anciently established. Early History of the Colle familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Colle research. Another 85 words (6 lines of text) covering the years 1598, 1628, 1640, 1659, 1680, 1696, 1709, 1759, 1789 and 1809 are included under the topic Early Colle History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Colle Spelling VariationsThere were a great number of spelling variations in French surnames. One reason for this was the wide variety of cultural influences present in France during the early development of the French language. The many spelling variations of the name include Collé, Collet, Collette, Colletet and others. Early Notables of the Colle familyNotable amongst the family during this period was - Guillaume Colletet (1598-1659), a French poet and a founder member of the Académie française, father of François Colletet
- François Colletet (1628-1680), a French poet, son of Guillaume Colletet
- Ferdinand-Marie Collet (1759-1809), a military serviceman
Colle RankingIn France, the name Colle is the 1,147th most popular surname with an estimated 4,796 people with that name. 1
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France finally gave land incentives for 2,000 migrants during the 1700s. Early marriage was encouraged in New France, and youths of 18 took fourteen-year-old girls for their wives. The fur trade was developed and attracted migrants, both noble and commoner from France. 15,000 explorers left Montreal in the late 17th and 18th centuries, leaving French names scattered across the continent. The search for the Northwest passage continued. Migration from France to New France or Quebec, as it was now more popularly called, continued until 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. 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 Colle were prominent in social, cultural, religious and political affairs in France and New France. Amongst the settlers in North America with this distinguished name Colle were
Colle Settlers in United States in the 19th Century- P Colle, aged 28, who landed in Key West, Fla in 1837 2
- F M Colle, who arrived in San Francisco, California in 1856 2
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- Jean Théodore Colle, French Brigadier General during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1789 to 1815 3
- 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, February 12) Jean Colle. Retrieved from http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/c_frenchgenerals.html
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