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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French (Lacoursière) : secondary surname for Rivard. It is of uncertain origin; the French word coursier means ‘messenger’, and la coursière is ‘the female messenger’. There may be some reference to privateering (see Lacourse).

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