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Early Origins of the Seurat family

The surname Seurat was first found in Poitou, where the family held a family seat since ancient times.

Early History of the Seurat family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Seurat research. Another 102 words (7 lines of text) covering the years 1560, 1622, 1627, 1657, 1675, 1690, 1696, 1716, 1774, 1791, 1810, 1816, 1833 and 1841 are included under the topic Early Seurat History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Seurat Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Savard, Savhard, Savart, Savhart, Savary, Savarie, Savarit, Sabard, Sabhard, Sabart, Sabhart, Sabary, Sabarit and many more.

Early Notables of the Seurat family

François Savary de Brèves (1560-1627), a French ambassador and Orientalist; Jacques Savary (1622-1690), French merchant and expert on commerce, author of Le parfait négociant (1675), a manual on mercantile trade; and his son, Jacques Savary des Brûlons (1657-1716), the French Inspector General of the...
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Seurat Ranking

France, the name Seurat is the 7,333rd most popular surname with an estimated 1,000 - 1,500 people with that name. 1

Migration of the Seurat family

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Gabrielle Savarit, who arrived in Biloxi, Louisiana in 1704; M. Savarie, who was living in Mobile, Louisiana in 1711; Anne Savary, who settled, at the age of 38.


Contemporary Notables of the name Seurat (post 1700) +

  • Georges Pierre Seurat (1859-1891), French post-Impressionist artist, best known for devising the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and for his A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
  • Pilar Seurat (1938-2001), born Rita Hernandez, a Philippine-American film and television actress in the 1960s
  • Claude-Ambroise Seurat (1797-1798), French freak show attraction from Troyes, France, known as "the anatomical man or the living skeleton" due to his extraordinarily low body weight
  • Marie Maamar Seurat (b. 1949), Syrian novelist whose husband Michel Seurat was kidnapped on 22 May 1985, in Lebanon, by the Islamic Jihad Organization; he died in captivity


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