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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : occupational name from Old French uissier ‘usher’, ‘doorkeeper’, with the definite article l(e).
  • French : occupational name from Old French huchier ‘carpenter’, ‘joiner’, ‘cabinetmaker’.
  • French : A bearer of the name from Paris was in Quebec City by 1669.

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