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bois Name Meaning and History

French: topographic name for someone living or working in a wood, from Old French bois ‘wood’ (Late Latin boscum ‘bush’, ‘shrub’, ‘undergrowth’, of Germanic origin). Compare the much more frequent form Dubois.

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

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

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Distribution of bois Families in the US in 1920
Number of bois families
 16-29
 6-15		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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