About the Boucher-Desroches surname
The surname Boucher-Desroches is associated with an occupational formation. The surname is linked to an old occupational name associated with the work of a butcher. The surname may thus have become fixed from an occupation practiced by an ancestor or associated with that person's household. Boucher-Desroches is a compound or hyphenated surname. For a particular family line, early records can show whether this form was long established or resulted from the joining of two surnames later in the family's history. In the normalization used for some LAFRANCE searches, the surname is also matched through the form “boucher desroches”; this search variant can be useful when accents, spaces, or punctuation differ.
Pronunciation:
Bou-ché-des-roch/buʃedəsʁɔʃ/