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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : possibly a derivative of bisaille ‘peas and vetch used as hen food’, hence presumably an occupational name for a grower or supplier of poultry food.
  • A Bisaillon from the Auvergne region of France is recorded in Laprairie, Quebec, in 1685.

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