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BUZZA Family History

This interesting and unusual surname found widespread in Cornwall has three possible origins. Firstly it may be a Cornish variant of the French Huguenot name "Bucer", from the Old French word "bucher", meaning to chop, cut, probably an occupational name for a butcher or forester. French Huguenot names were introduced to England by Flemish and French Huguenots fleeing religious persecution in the late 16th and 17th Century. Secondly the name may be a contracted form of the Old French "harquebuse", a long barrelled portable gun dating from the 15th Century, fired by a wheel-lock or match-lock from the Middle Dutch word "hakebusse", a hook gun.