The Quest for a Lost Race

by Thomas Edward Pickett

Boole, or Boyle. Buelles or Buels occurs in Normandy, 1195.

Boolen, for Bullen, or Boleyn.

Bools. Vide Boule.

Boon, or Boone, armorially identified with Bohun. The Norman family of that name descended from Humphrey de Bohun, who accompanied the Conqueror and was ancestor of the Bohuns, Earls of Hereford, Constables of England.

Booser, for Bowser.

Boosey. Alexander de la Buzeia, Normandy, 1180. Ralph Buse, England, 1194. "Boozy" in Kentucky.

Boot. The fief of Hugo Boot is mentioned in Normandy. "Perhaps a trader's name"—says Lower.

Boothby. A younger branch of the Barons de Tateshall, 1086 (Domesday).

Borne. Walter le Borne, Normandy, 1180.