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Gareau

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : nickname from the dialect word gar(r)el, gar(r)eau ‘limping’, ‘bow legged’.
  • A bearer of this name from Saintonge was in Boucherville, Quebec, by 1670.

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