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The belleau Surname

belleau Name Meaning and History

  1. nickname from beau, bel ‘handsome’, ‘beautiful’ + the diminutive suffix -eau (from Latin ellu).
  2. habitational name from places so named in Aisne and Meurthe-et-Moselle; the latter is recorded as early as 1047 as Bella Aqua ‘lovely water’ (French beau, bel ‘lovely’ + eau ‘water’).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The belleau name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the belleau family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of belleau Families in the US in 1920
Number of belleau families
 5-8
 2-4		 1
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 28 - Messages: 42
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Belleau bellacamara 0
BELLEAU, Mose A. CCayemberg 0
Belleau/Durocher Maggie 0
BELLEAU Myrna Schosser 0
Joseph, Marie-therese and Charlotte Belleau Jacklyn Catterick 1
Harry Topley and Maggie Belleau, D.C./MD lisaemrick37 2
Belleau/Laroche marriage Gerlynn 0
ALPHONSE BELLEAU lynnkey 1
descendants of Louis J. Wilfred Belleau and Annie Carrier Susan_Pelchat 0
Belleau Family JoyceHayes41 1
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