When Gilles Francois Use was born on 27 April 1771, in Saint-Servan, Ille-et-Vilaine, France, his father, Ignace Heuze, was 48 and his mother, Cécile Bourg, was 37. He died on 18 July 1774, in Châtellerault, Vienne, France, at the age of 3, and was buried in Châtellerault, Vienne, France.
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North German (also Büse): from Middle Low German buse ‘fishing boat’, specifically of the kind used to catch herring, and hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of such boats or for a herring fisher.
English (mainly Devon and Cornwall): variant of Bews .
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