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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : occupational name from the agent derivative of Old French troter ‘to walk fast’ (see Trotter 1).
  • A Trottier from the Perche region of France is documented in Quebec City in 1646, as lord of Desruisseaux and Desaulniers. The family also bear the secondary surnames Bellecourt and <xref>Belcourt</xref>.

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