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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements bald ‘bold’ + rīc ‘power’.
  • A Beaudry or Baudry, also known as Lamarche, from the Anjou region of France, is recorded in Trois Rivières, Quebec, in 1647; another, also called L’Épinette, from the Maine region of France, is documented in Montreal in 1665; and a Beaudry from La Rochelle was documented in Montreal in 1670. The secondary surname Desbuttes was recorded in Quebec city in 1682.

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