Hank Family History – LuBean Family

In the beginning, as far as I can determine, there was Great Grand Father Moses LuBean. He came from French Canada somewhere near Montreal. He couldn’t read or write English or probably French. I was told that he left home at an early age (early teens?). He somehow ended up in the U.S. near Wisconsin. He eventually settled on a farm in South Dakota but somehow spent time in the Northeast because he married Flora Briggs in Vermont and she was from Pennsylvania. I believe the name LuBean came from the misspelled, mispronounced, or phonetically declared name given to the Naturalization folks in Wisconsin. Our research is pointing toward the name being Le Beau. We think his father was August Le Beau from Canada but more work needs to be done to verify this. More to come…

Here is the more:

(WAGS Article requested and written by Hank LuBean, about 2019:)

How did genealogical ‘sticking with it’ pay off for Hank LuBean?

How about spending decades looking for an ancestor, using every possible tool and research strategy available and learning lots about how to search but coming up with no results. Been there, done that? Hank LuBean has – Long story short: Hank and family has been looking for 2nd Great Grandfather father for over 50 years; their Great Grandfather came from Canada and spoke French but could not read or write.

The LuBean name is rare; family members have looked and looked for all the variations of it: Lebean, Lebeaux, Lavine, lubine, etc. Then, a 1st cousin of Hank submitted an Ancestry DNA sample and got a response from a 3rd cousin in Canada who had done the same. Hank did a DNA test as well to confirm what the cousin had found. Eureka! In the end, after some research, review, and reasoning, the LuBean name appears to be a convoluted translation change originally from the French ‘ Lefebvre ‘ then eventually to ‘La Feve’ which when using the Latin equivalent it becomes ‘the Bean’ in English (the faba bean is common in Europe). DNA solved a 50-year research effort for Hank’s family.

Lefevre Family History (From Ancesty.com)

Lefevre Name Meaning

French (Lefèvre): occupational name for an ironworker or smith, Old French fevre. One of the most common names in France from an early date, this was taken to Britain and Ireland by the Normans, by the French to Canada, and by the Huguenots (with the variant form Lefebre) to colonial America and elsewhere. In Canada, there were so many bearers of this name that many nicknames and epithets (secondary surnames or ‘dit’ names) were employed to distinguish between one family and another. Thus, for example, the Lefevre called Descoteaux became Hill by translation, and the Lefevre called Boulanger became Baker. Since fevre ‘smith’ had ceded as a general vocabulary word to forgeron in French, the meaning of the name was no longer understood; in some cases it was reconstructed as Lafeve (Latin faba) and translated as Bean.

Similar surnames: Lefebvre, Revere, Lefebre, Lever, Leer, Lelievre, Lepere, Severe

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lafeve History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms (from houseofnames.com)

The surname lafeve is derived from the Old French word “fevre,” which meant “a blacksmith,” therefore it was originally anoccupational name for a smith or a metal worker. While the patronymic and metronymic surnames, those derived from the name of the father and mother respectively, were the most common form of a hereditary surname in France, occupational surnames also emerged during the late Middle Ages.

Early Origins of the lafeve family

The surname lafeve was first found in Savoy (French: Savoie) in the Rhône-Alpes region of the French Alps, where this noble family held a family seat since ancient times.

Throughout the centuries, families of this surname or one of its spelling variations could be found in many regions of France, including Vaud, Genève, Bresse, Lyonnais, Savoie, Dauphiné, Guillaume, and Echallens. Pierre of the Favre family of Lyon was a Consul in Lyon in 1382 and of his descendants, five were Magistrates of Lyon during the 16th century.

In Savoie, Gaspard was the secretary to the Duke in 1470 and one of the Senators of Savoie, as well as the President of the Senate. Guillaume, of Echallens from the county of Vaud, became a burgess, or businessman, in 1508 and his son, François, was one of the founders of the “Independence of Geneva” in 1534. Distinctive among his descendants were State Consuls of Geneva, Officers of State, General Treasurers, and the Lords of Dardagny, Russin, Malval, Confignon, and Châteauvieux, amongst others.

Pierre Lefebvre, born in 1642, son of Olivier and Michelle (née Renou), settled in Quebec in the 17th century. He married Marie-Madeleine Trudel, daughter of Jean and Marguerite (née Thomas), in 1674. They remained together until Pierre passed away at Charlesbourg on 21st November 1727. Pierre’s brother, Robert Lefebvre, born in 1633, married Denise Gautier in Quebec on 7th February 1667. They remained together until Denise’s death on 7th February 1695. Robert passed away on 3rd February 1703. ^[1]

Early History of the lafeve family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our lafeve research.
Another 139 words (10 lines of text) covering the years 1600, 1585, 1650, 1574, 1525, 1600, 1552, 1569, 1700, 1626, 1652, 1706, 1615, 1672, 1667 and 1716 are included under the topic Early lafeve History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

lafeve Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Lefebvre, Lefebvres, Lefevres, Favre, Favres, Fevre, Febvre, Febvres, Favers, Lefabre, Lefabvres, Fabvres, Lefever and many more.

Early Notables of the lafeve family (pre 1700)

Notable in the family name at this time was Antoine Favre (d. 1626), Professor at the University of Valence; Jean Le Fèvre (1652-1706), a French astronomer and physicist; Tanneguy Lefebvre (1615-1672), French classical scholar…
Another 33 words (2 lines of text) are included under the topic Early lafeve Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Migration of the lafeve family to the New World and Oceana

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Anne Lefebvre, aged 28, who arrived in Louisiana in 1719; Clair Lefebre, aged 28, who came to New Orleans in 1821; Antoine Lefebre, aged 27, who settled in New Orleans in 1823.

( Interesting, If one does a Google search of the LuBean name, virtually all the results come from only one decendent of Moses Lubean, my great grandfather from south Dakota, who was his son Henry Lubean – my grandfather. The name is only found in the Western US except for one from New Orleans, apparently a musician. It may be that those Lefevres that settled in New Orleans decided to use the original meaning of the French and ended up with lubean or ‘The Bean’.)