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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French Canadian variant of French Foissy, a habitational name from a place so named in Yonne. In French Canada Foisy is also a secondary surname for Frenière or La Frenière (see Lafreniere), and Americanized as Freeman.
  • A bearer of the name from Champagne is documented in Trois Rivières, Quebec, in 1667.

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