BELCHER Family Members

​​Page last updated 4 January 2023.
Meaning of… (See https://www.familysearch.org/en/surname): 
BELCHER:
  • English: (Of Norman origin): nickname from Old French beu, bel ‘fair’, ‘lovely’ + chere ‘face’, ‘countenance’. Although it originally meant ‘face’, the word chere later came to mean also ‘demeanor’, ‘disposition’ (hence English cheer), and the nickname may thus also have denoted a person of pleasant, cheerful disposition. There has been some confusion with Bowser.
  • English: Nickname for someone given to belching. See Balch.

BELCHER family pages done are:
​m. = maiden name​
h1. = surname of first husband
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