Bedard Family History
- Bedard Name Meaning
- French: nickname for someone with a fat belly, from a derivative of bedaine, a regional variant of boudaine ‘fat’. Alternatively, it may be a variant of Bedat, a habitational name from a place so named.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 427,551 Historical Documents with Bedard on Ancestry
- 137,644 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 66,284 Census and Voter Lists
- 6,651 Military Records
- 5,363 Immigration Records
- 211,609 Member Trees
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Number of Bedard families
 3 - 3  2 - 2 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bedard families
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428 - 854 143 - 427 |
1 - 142 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Bedard census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Bedard census records
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