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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French (Bussière) : topographic name for someone who lived by a box thicket, from buis ‘box (tree)’.
  • A Bussière from the Guyenne region of France is documented in Sainte-Famille, Quebec, in 1671, with the secondary surname Laverdure.

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