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buteau Name Meaning and History

  1. Most probably an altered form of French Buteux, a nickname for someone who was in the habit of pushing or hitting, also an occupational name for someone whose job was to unload goods or cargo, from Old French bouteor.
  2. alternatively it could be an altered form of Butaud, from the personal name Botwald, composed of the Germanic elements bod(o) ‘messenger’ + waldan ‘ruler’. This name is found chiefly in New England.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of buteau Families in the US in 1920
Number of buteau families
 8-13
 3-7
 1-2
 0
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Threads: 12 - Messages: 32
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Hormidas Buteau & Alexina Lacoix married 1/10/1902 St Cajetan RobertJLaCroix 1
family Robert R Buteau 9
his father robertleblanc79 1
Buteux family tree research Margaret Phillips nee BUTEUX 5
Who were Odias Buteau's parents? buteau 0
Etienne Buteau Matthew Mehalic 0
Albert et/ou Oscar Généreux jocelyne Généreux 0
David Buteau hermand_1 0
Alexis Butaud m. Modeste Broussard Bonnie Rabeaux 1
Louis Buteau BevLindsey 0

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