Beau Family History
- Beau Name Meaning
- French: nickname for a handsome man (perhaps also ironically for an ugly one), from Old French beu, bel ‘fair’, ‘lovely’ (Late Latin bellus). See also Bel.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 103,455 Historical Documents with Beau on Ancestry
- 60,508 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 14,156 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,559 Military Records
- 1,482 Immigration Records
- 22,750 Member Trees
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Number of Beau families
 6 - 10  3 - 5 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Beau families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Beau census records
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Beau census records
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