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BeaupreBeaupre (Boe - 'pray) Beaupre is a primarily Catholic family that lives mostly in northern New England. The full name is 'Bonhomme du Beaupre', which is French for 'Good Man of the Beautiful Prarie'. The name was shortened to simply 'Beaupre' after a few generations, most likely due to difficulties in writing or pronouncing such a long name. The history of the Beaupre family can be accurately traced to about AD 1045 to 1050. Ancestors of this family may well have fought in the Battle of Hastings in 1066, when Duke William the Conqueror of Normandy defeated King Harold of England Making himself King of England, yet still only the Duke of Normandy. The current age of the Beaupre family name is approximately 960 years. Eventually the Beaupre family moved to Quebec, Canada to a town now known as Beaupre. Ste. Anne's Cathedral is located there. Gradually the Beaupre family has moved down to New Hampshire, 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 the south (Biloxi, Mississippi) and being that most family members are either in the military or retired military, they have been stationed in such areas as: Chiemsee, Alaska; Heerlen, The Netherlands; and even Baghdad, Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom. 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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