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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from oiseau ‘bird’, with the definite article l(e) (see Loisel).
  • A Loiseau from the Perche region of France, was in Trois Rivières, Quebec, by 1666; another, from Champagne, France, was in Boucherville, Quebec, by 1669.

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