House of Chasse

House of Chasse (in frensh: La Maison de Chasse). is a family of Region of Meine, Department of Sarthe in France, with land in Rhone-Alpes in southern France and Normandy in northern France.
History
The noble surname Chasse originated in the region of Maine, in France. Chasse is a topographic surname, which is a type of hereditary surname. Topographic names were given to a person who resided near a physical feature such as a hill, stream, church, or type of tree. Habitation names form the other broad category of surnames that were derived from place-names. They were derived from pre-existing names for towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads. Other local names are derived from the names of houses, manors, estates, regions, and entire counties. As a general rule, the greater the distance between individuals and their homelands, the larger the territory they were named after. For example, people who only moved to another parish would be known by the name of their original villages, while people who migrated to a different country were often known by the name of a region or country from which they came.
Spelling variations of this family name include: Chassé, Chassay, Chassaye, Chassey, Chasset, Chassériau, Chassériot, Chassérieau, Chasériaud, Chassériaut, Chassériaux, Chaisson and many more.
First found in Maine, where the family took its name in early times from Chassé, a village in the department of Sarthe, in the district of Mamers.
Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Jean Chassé, who married Marie-Joseph Migneau in Kamouraska in 1735; Jean-Baptiste Chassé, who married Anne Pinet in Kamouraska in 1785; and Joseph Chassé, who married Judith Quéret in Kamouraska in 1789. Even today there are those who argue the possible link between this family and the Clan Sinclair of Scotland.
Some noteworthy people of the name Chasse
• (1765-1849), Dutch soldier

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