Guillaume couillard biography

  • Guillaume Couillard [fr], French settler.
  • Guillaume Couillard, sieur de L'Espinay (vers 11 octobre 1588 à Saint-Servan en France - 4 mars 1663 à Québec), fut le premier colon français de.
  • He had come to Canada about 1613 according to Champlain, who spoke highly of him in 1628.

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    COUILLARD DE LESPINAY, GUILLAUME, carpenter, seaman, and caulker, son of Guillaume Couillard and Élisabeth de Vesins, son-in-law of Louis Hébert; and native of Saint-Malo or of the parish of Saint-Landry in Paris; b. c. 1591; d. 1663 at Quebec.

    Couillard married Guillemette, daughter of Louis Hébert, at Quebec, about 26 Aug. 1621. By her he had 10 children, and because of the numerous descendants of these children Couillard appears in the genealogy of almost all the old French-Canadian families.

    He had come to Canada about 1613 according to Champlain, who spoke highly of him in 1628. Couillard was one of the first to settle permanently in the colony. Louis Hébert, the first farmer, arrived at Quebec only in 1617. After his death in 1627, Couillard took over from him the farming of his lands, having inherited, through his wife, half of Hébert’s estate. Moreover, in the same year (1627) Champlain also granted to Couillard, for personal reasons, “a hundred acres of

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    Guillaume (Couillard) Couillard de L'Espinay (1588 - 1663)

    GuillaumeCouillard de L'Espinay formerly Couillard aka Couillart, de L'Espinay

    Born in Saint-Servan, Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France
    Ancestors

    Son of André Couillard and Jehanne Basset

    [sibling(s) unknown]

    Descendants

    Father of Louise Couillard, Marguerite Couillard, Louis Couillard, Élisabeth Couillard, Marie Couillard, Guillaume Couillard, Magdelaine Couillard, Nicolas (Couillard) Couillart dit Belleroche, Charles (Couillard) Couillard sieur des Islets et de Beaumont and Catherine Gertrude Couillard

    Died at age 74in Québec, Canada, Nouvelle-France

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    Biographie

    Guillaume (Couillard) Couillard de L'Espinay a des origines françaises.

    Sieur Guillaume Couillard de l'Espinay[1][2] (1588 - 1663)

    Il est aussi connu sous le nom de Guillaume de Lespinay[3

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    COUILLARD DE LESPINAY, GUILLAUME, carpenter, seaman, and caulker, son of Guillaume Couillard and Élisabeth dem Vesins, son-in-law of Louis Hébert; native of Saint-Malo or of the parish of Saint-Landry in Paris; b. c. 1591; d. 1663 at Quebec.

    Couillard married Guillemette, daughter of Louis Hébert, at Quebec, about 26 Aug. 1621. By her he had 10 children, and because of the numerous descendants of these children Couillard appears in the genealogy of almost all the old French-Canadian families.

    He had come to Canada about 1613 according to Champlain, who spoke highly of him in 1628. Couillard was one of the first to settle permanently in the colony. Louis Hébert, the first farmer, arrived at Quebec only in 1617. After his death in 1627, Couillard took over from him the farming of his lands, having inherited, through his wife, half of Hébert’s estate. Moreover, in the same year (1627) Champlain also granted to Couillard, for personal reasons, “a hundred ac