Cordau History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Etymology of Cordau

The surname Cordau is a name whose history is connected to ancient Normandy. The name is derived from when the Cordau family once lived in Normandy, where the family was established since 1463 in a seigniory erected for des Cordey.

Early Origins of the Cordau family

Early History of the Cordau family

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Cordau Spelling Variations

There 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 Corde, Cordes, Cordé, Cordet, Cordette, Cordey, de Cordey, des Cordey, Corday, de Corday, Cordié, Cordier, Lecordier, Cordeau, Cordeaux, Cordot, Cordaud, Cordauld, Cordaut, Cordault, Cordaux, Cordaulx, Cordau, Cordel, Cordelle, Cordelet and many more.

Early Notables of the Cordau family

Jacques-Adrien Corday, a lieutenant; Marie-Anne-Charlotte Corday d'Armont, who was born in 1768 in Orne, and who died in 1793 in Paris, a heroic figure; Balthasar Cordier (1592-1650), Belgian theologian; Baude Cordier (c. 1380-before 1440), French composer; Mathurin Cordier (1480-1564) (pen name Corderius), French pedagogue; and Louis Cordier (1777-1861), a geologist and mineralogist. Jacques Cordier, better known under the name of Bocan, born in Lorraine about 1580; dancing-master and performer on the violin and rebec in the reign of Louis XIII. He...
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Migration of the Cordau family

In 1643, 109 years after the first landings by Cartier, there were only about 300 people in Quebec, in 1663 there were only 500, 2,000 migrants arrived during the next decade. Early marriage was desperately encouraged amongst the immigrants. 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. 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 1755, 10,000 French Acadians refused to take an oath of allegiance to England and were deported to Louisiana. Meanwhile, in Quebec, the French race flourished, founding in Lower Canada, one of the two great solitudes which became Canada. Many distinguished contributions have been made by members of this family name Cordau. It has been prominent in the arts, religion, politics and culture in France and New France. Amongst the settlers in North America with this distinguished name Cordau were Jean Cordeau, who married Catherine Latour in Quebec City in 1659; Jacques Cordeau, who married Marguerite Toupin in Château-Richer in 1702; Jacques Cordier, the son of Nicolas and of Jeanne Lefranc, of Rennes, who married Marie-Franç.