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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from a diminutive of Old French tonder, an oblique case of tondeur ‘clipper’, hence an occupational name for someone who clipped cloth, or for a sheep-shearer.
  • A Tondreau from the Orléans region of France is documented in Beaupré, Quebec, in 1691, with the secondary surname La Souche.

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