The origin
Categories of names
Significances
Bachand, Colin, Laliberté, Lehoux, Chicoine
Dit name
Geographical distribution of Bachand
The Origin of surname
The process of formation of the names goes up with the Middle Ages, more exactly around XIIe century.
The places, the mountains, the rivers received denominations according to their position, their relief, their vegetation or their environment. The men, between them, had to proceed well quickly in the same way. At that time, all are indicated by a single name, given by the family, as it gives today a first name to the child who has just been born. They are called Guillaume, Raoul, Clobert, Richard, Guerin, Jean... etc, it is all.
As from XIe century and for several reasons (favorable climate, external peace, temporary retreat of the epidemics and the food shortage), one attends a demographic boom, phenomenon which reaches its maximum around year 1200. In the medium of XIIIe century, France will count, according to certain estimates, approximately ten million inhabitants, quantifies enormous which will be very long to exceed.
The consequences of this demographic explosion are significant on all the plans: economic, social and politique... One of them, capital for us, is to cause a great confusion, within each village, between different the Guillaume, Raoul or Jacques who live there. The reflex hardly delays: each one receives a nickname which will be added to its name. In the second time, this individual nickname will be transmitted hereditarily, with or without installation, with the descendants of that which received it. The use of the two names, spreads. They are our first name and our surname or patronym (name of the fathers).
(Drawn from « Les noms de famille et leurs secrets », Jean-Louis Beaucarnot, éd. Robert Lafont.)
Categories of name suggested by Jean-Louis Beaucarnot
Other bonds on the patronym:
Bachand
Bach is a term of Alsace meaning small river. An aqueous place name become surname by transmission to her inhabitants. That which lived close to the brook.
Bachant is a commune of the department of the North (59) of France, district of Avesnes, canton of Berlaimont, with a few kilometers of the Belgian border.
Etymology: Baschien, Backhem to the XII century; Baschant to the XVIII century; Bachant-The-Powerful, Bachant-On-Sambre.
Other bond on the commune and the area
Colin
Derived from Colas which is an old abbreviation of Nicolas. Nicolas is a Christian name become very widespread surname. NicolausSaint : N Greek: populate, Laos [ synonymous with dêmos], victory. One of the most popular saints of the end of the Middle Ages, bishop of Lycie to the IV century, to which one allotted the resurrection of three little children put at died by a butcher.
(Larousse, Dict. etymological of the first name and surnames of France)
This name origin of the department of Morbihan in Bretagne where one finds Ploërmel and the Rock-Bernard who were centers huguenots significant; then, the region was devastated at the time of the wars of the League. At the XVII century, the area was to know a great economic expansion, with the foundation by Colbert into 1666 of the East, port of the Company of the Eastern Indies.
Laliberté
Derived from freedom, whose origin would be libert, of former freed meaning French.
Lehoux
Patronym derived from the houx, thorny shrub whose species is a whitewood, hard, with fine grain, very required for the cabinet work. With appeared, it is that which pricks, unpleasant, wild and sour.
Chicoine
Patronym derived from Chicanne whose Chicouane alternative must represent a chicannor. Chicanne was attested like patronym only to the 15 century. In the west of France, one finds some Chicoisne. While crossing the Atlantic, the patronym lost «the S »to become Chicoine. Certain descendants adopted the nicknames of Dozois, Cotton and Firmin.
Even when the surname became hereditary, the use of a nickname joined in the name of family continued to the XVIII and even to the XVIX century in News-France. In Canada, it is only in 1870 that the authorities required to choose between their original surname and their nickname.
Other bonds on the name known as: Denis Beauregard and Linda W Jones
Distribution of the Bachand surname and its derivatives
Starting from service 411 of Bell Canada, I counted 754 inscriptions under the names of Bachan, Bachand, Bachant, Béchamp and a hundred under the names of Bashaw, Vertefeuille and Greenleaf. These the last 3 patronyms are not necessarily all downward of the ancestor Nicolas Bachan dit Vertefeuille, since one finds also Vanasse dit Vertefeuille in the area of Thois-Rivières in 1700. Bashaw is also carried by the descendants of an ancestor from England towards the E.U. during the same time.
Nearly 90 % find themselves in Quebec in the area of Montreal, the Southern side of St-Laurent and in Estrie. The others are in Ontario, Colombia Britanique and the other provinces. As in the majority of the families, several emigrated in the United States between 1840 and 1930, so that there are probably as many descendants of Nicolas Bachan in the United States, in New England mainly, but we find in Florida, California, Dakota and in several other States.
Side European, one finds little carrier of the name of Bachant, only some here and there. In Germany we find some Baschien and Baschant which are forms even older Bachand surname.
Distribution of the Bachand patronym in the United States