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Definition: The ancient French surname duBois comes from the Old French "bois" meaning wood and was a French place name given to a man who lived or worked in the woods or worked as a woodcutter.
Surname Origin:
French
Alternate Surname Spellings:
BOIS, DUBOS, DUBOST, DUBOISE, DEBOSE, DUBAIS, DUBAISE, DESBOIS, BOST
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French Genealogy DUBOIS Family Genealogy Forum FamilySearch - DUBOIS Genealogy DUBOIS Surname & Family Mailing List Surname Finder - DUBOIS Genealogy & Family Resources Cousin Connect - DUBOIS Genealogy Queries DistantCousin.com - DUBOIS Genealogy & Family History MyCinnamonToast.com - DUBOIS Genealogy in All Regions References: Surname Meanings & Origins Cottle, Basil. Penguin Dictionary of Surnames. Baltimore, MD: Penguin
Books, 1967. Dorward, David. Scottish
Surnames. Collins Celtic (Pocket edition), 1998. Fucilla, Joseph. Our Italian Surnames.
Genealogical Publishing Company, 2003. Smith, Elsdon C. American
Surnames. Genealogical Publishing Company, 1997. Looking for the meaning of a given name? Check out
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Hanks, Patrick and Flavia Hodges.
A Dictionary of Surnames. Great
Britain: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Reaney, P.H. A Dictionary of English Surnames. Oxford University
Press, 1997.
