Topics

• About the Panchaud One-Name Study
• Variants
• Origin of the surname
• Historical occurrences
• Distribution of the name
• Contact Details

About the Panchaud One-Name Study

This study is very much in it's youth and has developed from research into my own family of Panchauds. After identifying the rarity of the name in the UK I was intrigued to find out more and hence moved on to the one name study.

Variants

At this time, the only variants I am looking at are Panchard and Panchand (which are both particularly rare) although through this site I have identified what appear to be transcriptional errors in my names link in with the Punchard one name study in Suffolk/Norfolk and Devon.

Origin of the surname

1) Geographic. At this stage it appears the vast bulk of Panchauds originate from Switzerland, based purely on the volume of records held for that country in the IGI. More specifically, the records are from the French-speaking Canton de Vaud in the west of the country, between Lake Geneva and Lake Neuchatel. I am not certain, however, that this might not just be an artificial bias from those records that have been transcribed.

2) Etymolocial. My initial enquiries into the derivation of the surname Panchaud have been unfruitful but given the likely French speaking area of origin, a logical starting point is that it may have something to do with baking as in pain chaud or warm/hot bread.

Historical occurrences

As an interesting point of trivia, the Swiss are renound for clocks, chocolate and banking. Within my own branch of the Panchaud family, all three professions are found, although I am struggling to document the link that a Charles Panchaud emigrated to the USA and owned a chocolate factory.

Distribution of the name

With most of my initial research based in the UK, I have a distribution there with most instances in London but also Worcester, Sheffield, Cambridge, Norfolk and the southwest. Worldwide, the majority of occcurrences are in Switzerland but the name is also seen in the USA, Germany, France and South Africa.

Contact details

For further information, contact:

Mr Oliver Burbage-Hall
15A Queen Elizabeth Sq,
Maidstone,
Kent
ME15 9DF
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail:

This page last updated 25 February 2008.

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