Bedard Family History
Bedard Name Meaning
French: nickname for someone with a fat belly, from a derivative of
bedaine, a regional variant of boudaine
‘fat’. Alternatively, it may be a variant of Bedat, a
habitational name from a place so named.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bedard
Name Distribution of Bedard Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bedard families
 94 - 185  32 - 93 |
 1 - 31  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bedard families
|
3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Bedard last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bedard census records
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Bedard Family Origin
Bedard Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Bedard
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Bedard Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Bedard census records
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Bedard Civil War Service Records
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