Beaupre (surname)

Beaupre (originally Beaupré) (/boʊˈpreɪ/ boh-PRAY) is a primarily Catholic family that lives mostly in northern New England and Michigan.

Members of the Beaupre family moved to Quebec, Canada to a town now known as Beaupre. Ste. Anne's Cathedral is located there. The name was probably the result of settlers taking names descriptive of their settlement locations.

Gradually the Beaupre family has moved down to New England, in the United States. This is considered by much of the family to be the 'home area' although parts of the family have also moved to (Biloxi, Mississippi), Minnesota, York, South Carolina and to both Wolfe Island, Ontario and Winnipeg, Canada; Chiemsee, Alaska; the Dakotas; Heerlen, Netherlands; and even Baghdad, Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Others have moved down to Michigan from Quebec around the middle 19th century.

The Beaupre family has recently mixed with the German Kilian family, which has ancestors who lived in Germany, Poland and possibly even Russia.

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