Bossier Family History
Bossier Name Meaning
French: occupational name for a cooper, from an agent derivative of
Old French bosse ‘barrel’. The name is frequent in the southern
States; it was probably brought to North America by Huguenots.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bossier
Name Distribution of Bossier Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bossier families
 5 - 7  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Bossier Family Origin
Bossier Emigration Information (US)
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Bossier Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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