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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Boscherville in Eure, France, named with Old Anglo-Norman French boschet ‘copse’, ‘thicket’ (a diminutive of Bois) + ville ‘settlement’, ‘town’.

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