Beaupre (surname)

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Beaupre (originally Beaupré) (/boʊˈpreɪ/ boh-PRAY) is a surname found mostly in Canada, the United States and parts of England.

In Canada[]

Members of the Beaupré family moved to Quebec, Canada.[citation needed] The towns of Beaupré and Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré may be related to the surname.

In England, Wales and France[]

Beaupré was a prominent family in Norfolk, who built Beaupré Hall, Outwell. Christian, daughter and coheir of Thomas de St Omer, married John, the great-great-grandson of one Synulph, who lived during the reign of King Henry II, and had issue: John dicte quoque Beaupré,[1] who lived during the reign of King Edward II, and married Katherine, daughter of Osbert Mountfort. Their son Thomas Beaupré would be raised by his grandmother Christian (last St Omer in this line) after the death of both of his parents. Thomas was knighted by King Edward III, and married Joan Holbeache, and died during the reign of King Richard II.[2]

Nicholas Beaupré married Margaret Fotheringhay,[3] one of the three daughters and heiresses of Thomas Fotheringhay (son of Gerrard Fotheringhay) by his wife Elizabeth Doreward, sister and heiress of John Doreward and daughter of William Doreward of Bocking, Essex. One of Margaret's sisters was Christiana Fotheringhay, wife of John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford (1482–1540), KG, Lord Great Chamberlain.[4] The other was Helen or Ellen Fotheringhay, who married Henry Thursby[5] of Ashwicken and Burg's Hall in Hillington (1476–1506), the nephew of Thomas Thursby (d.1510), merchant, thrice Mayor of King's Lynn and the founder and benefactor of Thoresby College.[6]

The son of Nicholas Beaupré and Margaret Fotheringhay, Edmund Beaupré,[7] married Margaret, the daughter of Sir John Wiseman, servant to the 15th Earl of Oxford. His second wife, Katherine Wynter (widow of John Wynter of Great Yarmouth)[8] was the daughter of Phillip Bedingfeld[7] of Ditchingham Hall. After Edmund Beaupré's death in 1567 leaving no male heirs, the hall succeeded to Sir Robert Bell, by virtue of marriage to Edmund's daughter Dorothy in 1559; whereby his Beaupré line became extinct.[9] In 1529, together with his cousin Thomas Thursby of Hillington, Norfolk, as heirs of John Doreward, of Great Yeldham, Essex, Edmund Beaupré released the manor of Coggeshall to Richard Sowthwell, esquire.[10] In 1541 Edmund Beaupré got the wardship of his relative Edward Thursby of Doreward's Hall in Bocking, Essex.[11]

A separate Beaupre (Beaupré) family existed in the Nancy area of France in the 17th century and later moved to Besançon. A member of the family moved to England in 1824 in the service of George Canning as chef and interpreter. While the family is no longer in France they remain in England with members in Wellington, Somerset, London and elsewhere.[citation needed]

Beaupré was a name with ecclesiastical connections in the early Middle Ages. A priory with the name existed in South Wales, and monks moving into the community took the name with them so that it appears (as a surname) on church lists of vicars from the 12th and 13th centuries, especially in Devon and Cornwall.[citation needed]

Bonhomme dit Beaupré, France to Québec[]

This family's first documented ancestor was Nicolas Bonhomme, born about 1562 in St-Croix de Féca, Normandie, France. He married there with Marie Guyon. They had a son, also named Nicolas, in 1603. This son became the family's pioneer ancestor. As an adult, he emigrated to New France—later named Québec, Canada—where he married on 2 Sep 1640 at St-Laurent, Ile d'Orleans with a woman named Catherine Gouget, a Fille du Roi, from Bourg de Thury, Normandie, France.

The Filles du Roi (i.e. "King's Daughter") were women who were shipped from France to New France to marry pioneers and soldiers for the purpose of developing a French society there.

Many of those across New England who still bear the surname Beaupré (pron. bow-PRAY, or without the accent mark, bow-PREE) are descendants of the pioneers, Nicolas Bonhomme dit Beaupré and Catherine Gouget. The use of the French word "dit" (literally "said") in this context means "nickname" or "also known as".

Sources[]

  • The Visitations of Norfolk, 1563, 1589, and 1613, Harl. 1552.
  1. ^ "Also called Beaupré".
  2. ^ Rye, Walter; Hervey, William; Cooke, Clarenceux; Raven, John. The visitacion [i.e., visitation] of Norfolk, made and taken by William Hervey, Clarencieux King of Arms, anno 1563, enlarged with another visitacion [sic] made by Clarenceux Cook : with many other descents, and also the vissitation [sic] made. Family History Library. p. 33.
  3. ^ Hussey, C., "Beaupré Hall Wisbech, Coventry" Homes and Gardens Old & New, (Country Life), 1923
  4. ^ See pedigree of Fodringhay, Heraldic Visitation of Essex, 1558, p.52
  5. ^ Office, Great Britain Public Record (1898). Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office: Henry VII. H.M. Stationery Office.
  6. ^ Bannerman, W. Bruce (William Bruce) (1906). "Thoresby of Lynn". Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica. London, England : Mitchell, Hughes & Clarke. 4 (series 4): 138–140.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b Rye, Walter; Hervey, William; Cooke, Clarenceux; Raven, John. The visitacion [i.e., visitation] of Norfolk, made and taken by William Hervey, Clarencieux King of Arms, anno 1563, enlarged with another visitacion [sic] made by Clarenceux Cook : with many other descents, and also the vissitation [sic] made. Family History Library. p. 34.
  8. ^ Bell, R. R.L., Tudor Bell's Sound Out, pb., 2006. p. 175-6-7
  9. ^ Hussey, C., "Beaupré Hall Wisbech, Coventry" Homes and Gardens Old & New, (Country Life), 1923
  10. ^ Catalogue Description: Release by Philip Calthorp, knight, at the request of Edmund Bewpre, of Yaxley, Suffolk, esquire, and of Thomas Thursby, of Hillyngton, Norfolk, cousins and heirs of John Durward, of Great Yeldham, Essex, deceased, to Richard Sowthwell, esquire, of his right in the manor of Coggeshale, and in 'Poyntell Mill' and 'Esterfordmyll,' in Coggeshale, Markeshale, etc. of which, with Henry Wentworth, knight, and others since deceased, he was seised by charter dated at Coggeshale, 10 November, 11 Henry VII.; to hold, etc. Essex. 15 June, 21 Henry VIII. Note: See E 40/12277. Seal. 15 June 1529.
  11. ^ "Henry VIII: February 1541, 26-28 | British History Online. Letters and Papers Henry VIII, 1541, g. 580/74". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-10-04. 74. Edm. Beaupre. Annuity of 10l. issuing from the manor of Bocking, Essex, which belonged to Thos. Thurseby, dec., in reversion; during the minority of Edw. Thuresby, s. and h. of the said Thomas; with wardship and marriage of the said heir. Hampton Court, 18 Jan. 32 Hen. VIII. Del. Westm., 16 Feb.—P.S. Pat. p. 5, m. 55.
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