A family name, some ancestors: The COMEAU across France

NOTE: This is an unedited copy of an article published by Jacques A. COMEAU in 2000.

At the beginning of these research my goal was the discovery of the origins of Pierre COMEAU, cooper at Port Royal  and ancestor of all the COMEAU of North America. To learn where we come from we have to retrace our steps and with the passing of time this work transformed itself into a demographic study on the COMEAU of France. I linked all the results of this search in a piece that acquaint us on the origin or our surname, since the year 1000, and we also discover a few COMEAU families born in the middle age. We are still looking for the whereabouts of Pierre’s family but now we have a few options, we can speculate and we learned a lot more on the bearers of our name in France.