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boisclair Name Meaning and History

French: topographic name from Old French bois ‘wood’ (see Bois) + clair ‘clear’, ‘light’, or in some cases possibly a habitational name for someone who lived at a place known as ‘Clair’s wood’, from the same second element as a personal name.

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

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

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Distribution of boisclair Families in the US in 1920
Number of boisclair families
 12-21
 5-11		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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