Bourchier Family History

Perhaps from Boursières in Haute-Saône. The name was early confused with other surnames especially through loss of /r/ before /s/ and /ʃ/ and may survive in Bouchier, Bowcher, Bowser, and Boozer.

The surname gave rise to a number of minor place-names in Essex: Bourchier's alias Bouchier's Hall in Aldham, Bourchier's Hall in Messing; Bouchier's Grange in Great Coggeshall, Bouchiers Chapel in Tollesbury, Boarstye Fm and Bowser's Hall in Rivenhall (Essex), and Boose's Green in Colne Engayne.

Perhaps a variant of Burchard or else Burcher (see Bircher). Compare Bouchier and Boucher, which may be other forms of the same name.