title: Bastarache
text: # Bastarache
  
  Bastarache (French pronunciation: ​) is a French surname of Basque origin. It was formed as a patronym of Basterreche, which itself is a topographic name for someone who lived in a house by a boundary, or on the edge of a settlement or the corner of a street. It is ultimately derived from Basque bazter ("border", "edge") and eche ("house"). It was one of the original Acadian surnames.
  
  ## Notable people
  
  Notable people with this surname include:
  
  * Michel Bastarache dit Basque (1730-1820), Canadian Acadian
  * Michel Bastarache (born 1947), Canadian judge
  
  ## Places
  
  The hamlet of Bastarache in Sainte-Marie-de-Kent, New Brunswick was named after early settlers Joseph Bastarache, Isidore Bastarache or Peter Bastarache, or after Adrien Bastarache, the first postmaster.
  
  