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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements burg ‘fortification’ + wald ‘rule’.
  • A Bourgault from Brittany is documented in Contrecoeur, Quebec, in 1694, with the secondary surname Lacroix.

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