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Monument to Guillaume Couture in Levis. Guillaume Couture (January 14, 1618 – April 4, 1701) was a citizen of New France.During his life he was a lay missionary with the Jesuits, a survivor of torture, a member of an Iroquois council, a translator, a diplomat, a militia captain, and a lay leader among the colonists of the Pointe-Lévy (now named Lévis city) in the Seigneury of Lauzon, a ...
wife: Patrick Crawley 6th Earl of Grantham [i] (deceased) Violet Crawley Dowager Countess of Grantham [ii] (deceased) Isidore Levinson [iii] (deceased) Martha Levinson [iii] Roberta: husband: Dr. Reginald Crawley [iv] (deceased) Isobel Grey [v] Baroness Merton (formerly Mrs Crawley, née Turnbull) [iv] Richard "Dickie" Grey Baron Merton: James ...
Guillaume Couture (23 October 1851 – 15 January 1915) was a Canadian choir conductor, composer, music critic, and music educator. [1] Although he never pursued a performance career, he is particularly remembered for his work as a voice teacher, having taught many notable Canadian singers. He is the grandfather of composer Jean Papineau-Couture.
The Secord family (originally Sicard) was a colonial New York family whose loyalties were split during the American Revolution. The family traces its origins back to Ambroise Sicard who was born in France about 1631. Sicard, a Huguenot, brought his family to British America in 1688 to escape religious persecution.
Couture is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Dani Couture (born 1978), Canadian writer; Gerry Couture (1925–1994), Canadian hockey player; Guillaume Couture (1617/18–1701), lay missionary, diplomat and militia captain in New France; Léonie Couture (born 1951), Canadian feminist and charity founder
Born in Montreal, Papineau-Couture is the grandson of conductor and composer Guillaume Couture. As a child he studied piano with his mother. As a child he studied piano with his mother. He first studied privately in Montreal with Gabriel Cusson before entering the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1937.
Charlotte was later wed to Jean-Baptiste Testard, [2] son of Jacques Testard de Montigny. Like their father, sons Jean-Baptiste-Jérémie (1741 - 1799) and Jean-Baptiste-Pierre (1750- 1813) were famed soldiers; they fought at the Battle of the Cedars , in 1776, where the elder brother "distinguished himself by formulating a strategy against the ...
3rd with his wife Profecte in an act of donation in 981; The family descent then is: Pons the Younger (born c. 950, fl. 971-1028), father of; Hugh I (born c. 970 – after 1059), father of; William Hugh of Baux French: Guillaume Hugues or "Guilhem Uc" (after 1030 – 1105), father of; Raymond I (before 1095 – 1150), father of