ELEVENTH GENERATION

2016. Guillaume Couture ⁽¹⁾ was born on 14 Jan 1617 in Rhoen, Normandy, France. He was baptized on 14 Jan 1618 in Rhoen, Normandy, France. He died on 4 Apr 1701 in Hotel Dieu (Hospital), Quebec, Canada. He Sealed to Spouse on 15 Jul 1977 in Sealed to Spouce (Ann Aymard). He REFN No. in 94QV-6B. The first Couture in North America was Guillaume (William) Couture. He was born in Rhoen, France in the year 1617. This was a cathedral city in the district of Normandy, about 25 miles northwest of Paris. He grew up learning the trade of carpentry and must of heard enchanting stories of the new world. About 1640, he emigrated to this new frontier, following the explorers Cartier and Champlain to the wild but adventuresome shores of the St Lawrence River. He first settled at Quebec, then the capital city of New France.

He joined up with the Jesuits as a "Donne". This was not unusual as 150 of the 500 people in New France in 1640 were religious personnel. A Donne would dedicate their service to the Jesuit mission, taking minor vows, and in turn received clothing, food and shelter. This is somewhat like a "Brother" in today's church. He teamed up with Father Isaac Joques, who was also from Rhoen, France, and traveled with him to the North Country near the Georgian Bay of Lake Huron. There he used his carpenter skills to help build a fort and chapel at the site called "Sainte Marie".

Guillaume Couture was a Christian hero in the full sense of what those two words imply. Seven years before his marriage to Anne Aymard, he already was known in the country and Father Bressani's report makes us see just who were our ancestors and the emotions that drove their actions, and the greatness and magnitude of their soul.

"On August 2, 1642," Says Father Bressani, reproduced in Ferland, "Course of History" (volume I, pages 316 and following), "the Hurons, with twelve boats, returning to their village, had brought back with them Father Isaac Jogues, Guillaume Couture, interpreter, and Rene Goupil, a young surgeon, who wanted to practice his craft among Christians.

"The travelers had left Trois Rivières two days prior and had probably arrived at the islands of the Lake Saint Pierre when they were surrounded by a band of around 80 Iroquois, who, by a barrage of arrows, forced the boats to land.

"Proud of their victory, the Iroquois began to torture their victims and Couture, who during the combat had killed one of their chiefs, felt the brunt of their fury; they pulled out his fingernails, crushed his fingers with their teeth, and ran a sword through his hand. No matter the atrocity or the pain, he withstood it with calm and tranquillity.

"Eustache Ahatsistari had both his thumbs cut off and, in his left hand, they drove in a sharp stick all the way to his elbow. As a Christian hero, he courageously withstood this agony that only demons could invent.

"A Christian Algonquin, a captive of several months, was forced to cut off the left thumb of the missionary; one of his companions also had to suffer the same torture, made all the more painful because it was done not with a knife, but with an oyster shell.

"During 7 days, the prisoners were dragged from village to village, changing location only to find fresh tortures better disposed at continuing the bloody undertaking. They were finally told that they were going to perish by fire; and Father Jogues took advantage of his remaining moments to exhort his companions to persevere in keeping their spirits up and to prepare themselves to enter a better life.

"During this time, a great council was convened, and it was decided to spare the Frenchman's lives and also the lives of the majority of the Hurons, only 3 of whom were condemned to die. One of these was the brave Eustache Ahatsistari, who died amid all the torture, with all of a soul's greatness, and the patience of a martyr such as those of the church's first centuries. Guillaume Couture was given to an Indian family who adopted him and led him away to the furthest village." (Ferland, volume I).

Guillaume Couture was rescued at the end of a few years. He was frequently employed in negotiations with the Indians; and he distinguished himself on all occasions with his intelligence and his courage. In 1649, he married Anne Aymard and established himself at the Pointe-Levis where he was the chief of justice, judge and captain of the coastline.

Rene Goupil is one of our Canadian martyr saints. In reading the above narrative, we certify that your ancestor, Guillaume Couture, is worthy equal of Rene Goupil.brief conflict many of the Hurons were killed. The three Frenchman were carried off as prisoners along with the surviving Hurons. One of the two Frenchman with Jogues, Goupil, was killed and Couture was drafted into the tribe. The Hurons were burned at the stake. Father Jogues was tortured continuously. He managed to escape with the help of some Dutch traders.

From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 1-2-1996 REFN 94VQ-6B Source: Marriage - Jette's Dictionary of Genealogy.
Notes for Guillaume Couture:
Guillaume Couture came from Rouen to New France about 1640. He entered service with the Jesuits. He became a "Coureur des bois" in the best sense of the word. He was very interested in the natives and took the trouble to learn a number of their languages. For this reason the government and the Jesuits used him in many of their dealings with the natives. Seven years after he was married Guillaume became a hero. On August 2nd 1642 according to the father Bressani "The Hurons with twelve canoes including Father Jogues, Rene Goupil, their surgeon, and Guillaume Couture were forced by a band of twenty four Iroquois, who after firing a gun forced the canoes to land. After this victory the Iroquois began torturing their victims including Couture. After seven days of tortures, the prisoners were dragged from one village to the next. Because of his courage under torture Guillaume was adopted by one of the villages. He earned the respect of the natives and from that time forward he was used frequently in negotiations with the savages. He established himself in 1649 with Anne Aymard near Point Levis. He was a judge and captain of the coast.
According to "Parkman in the Jesuits in North America" I have the following tale. In 1641 the waters of the St. Lawrence rolled through a virgin wilderness, where, in the vastness of the lonely woodlands, harborage was found at only three points - at Quebec, at Montreal and at Three Rivers. Here, and in the scattered missions was the whole of New France - a population of some three hundred souls in all. And now, over these miserable settlements, rose a war-cloud of frightful portent.
It was thirty two years since Champlain had first attacked the Iroquois. They had nursed their wrath for more than a generation, and at length their hour was come. The Dutch traders at Fort Orange, now Albany, had supplied them with fire-arms. The Mohawks, the most easterly of the Iroquois nations, had, among their seven or eight hundred warriors, no less than three hundred armed with the arquebuse.
In parties of from ten to a hundred or more, they would leave their towns on the River Mohawk, descend Lake Champlain and the River Richelie, lie in ambush on the banks of the St. Lawrence, and attack the passing boats or canoes. Sometimes they hovered about the fortifications of Quebec and Three Rivers, killing stragglers, or luring armed parties into ambuscades. They followed like hounds on the trail of travellers and hunters; broke in upon unguarded camps at midnight; and lay in wait for days and weeks, to intercept the Huron traders on their yearly descent to Quebec.
In the early morning of August 2nd, 1642 twelve Huron canoes were moving slowly along the northern shore of the expansion of the St. Lawrence known as the Lake of St. Peter. There were on board about forty persons, including four Frenchmen, one of them being the Jesuit, Isaac Jogues. They were on their way back to the Huron mission who were in need of clothing for the priests, vessels for the altars, of bread and wine for the eucharist, writing materials, basically everything. Included in the forty were a few Huron converts, among them a noted Christian chief Eustache Ahatsistari, the remainder were still heathen returning with the proceeds of their bargains with the French fur traders.
Jogues sat in one of the leading canoes, with him were two young men, Rene Goupil and Guillaume Couture, donnes of the mission - that is to say laymen who, from a religious motive and without pay, had attached themselves to the service of the Jesuits. Couture, was a man of intelligence and vigor, and of a character equally disinterested. Both were, like Jogues , in the foremost canoes; while the fourth Frenchman was with the unconverted Hurons, in the rear.
The twelve canoes had reached the western end of the Lake of St. Peter, where it is filled with innumerable islands. The forest was close on their right, they kept near the shore to avoid the current, and the shallow water before them was covered with a dense growth of tall bulrushes. Suddenly the silence was frightfully broken. The war-whoop rose from among the rushes, mingled with the reports of guns and the whistling of bullets; and several Iroquois canoes, filled with warriors, pushed out from their concealment, and bore down upon Jogues and his companions. The Hurons in the rear were seized with a shameful panic. They leaped ashore; left canoes, baggage and weapons; and fled into the woods. The French and the Christian Hurons made fight for a time; but when they saw another fleet of canoes approaching from opposite shores or islands, they lost heart, and those escaped who could. Coupil was seized and triumphant yells, as were also several of the Huron converts. Jogues sprang into the bulrushes, and might have escaped; but when he was Goupil and the neophytes in the clutches of the Iroquois, he had no heart to abandon them, but came out from his hiding-place, and gave himself up to the astonished victors. A few of them had remained to guard the prisoners; the rest were chasing the fugitives. Jogues mastered his agony, and began to baptize those of the captive converts who need baptism.
Couture had eluded pursuit; but when he thought of Jogues and of what perhaps awaited him, he resolved to share his fate, and, turning, retraced his steps. As he approached five Iroquois ran forward to meet him; and one of them snapped his gun at his breast, but it missed fire. In this confusion and excitement, Couture fired his own piece, and laid the savage dead. The remaining four sprang upon him, stripped off all his clothing, tore away his finger nails with their teeth, gnawed his fingers with the fury of famished dogs and thrust a sword through one of his hands. Jogues broke from his guards, and rushing to his friend, threw his arms about his neck. The Iroquois dragged him away, beat him with their fists and war-clubs till he was senseless, and when he revived, lacerated his fingers with their teeth, as they had done those of Couture. Then they turned upon Goupil, and treated him with the same ferocity. The Huron prisoners were left for the present unharmed. More of them were brought in every moment, till at length the number of captives amounted in all to twenty-two, while three Hurons had been killed in the fight and pursuit. The Iroquois, about seventy in number, now embarked with their prey; but not until they had knocked on the head an old Huron, whom Jogues with his mangled hands, had just baptized, and who refused to leave the place. Then, under a burning sun, they crossed to the spot on which the town of Sorel now stands, at the mouth of the river Richelieu, where they encamped.
Their course was southward, up the River Richelieu and Lake Champlain; thence by way of Lake George, to the Mohawk towns. The pain and fever of their wounds, and the clouds of mosquitoes, which they could not drive off, left the prisoners no peace by day, nor sleep by night. On the eighth day, they learned that a large Iroquois war-party, on their way to Canada, were near at hand; and they soon approached their camp, on a small island near the southern end of Lake Champlain. The warriors , two hundred in number, saluted their victorious countrymen with volleys from their guns; then, armed with clubs and thorny sticks, ranged themselves in two lines, between which the captives were compelled to pass up the side of a rocky hill. On the way, they were beaten with such fury, that Jogues, who was last in the line, fell powerless, drenched in blood and half dead. As the chief man among the French captives, he fared the worst. His hands were again mangled, and fire applied to his body; while the Huron chief, Eustache, was subjected to tortures even more atrocious. When, at night, the exhausted sufferers tried to rest, the young warriors came to lacerate their wounds and pull out their hair and beards.
In the morning they resumed their journey. And now the lake narrowed to the semblance of a tranquil river. Before them was a woody mountain close on their right a rocky promontory, and between these flowed a stream, the outlet of Lake George. On those rocks, more than a hundred years after, rose the ramparts of Ticonderoga. They landed, shrouded their canoes and baggage, took their way through the woods. First of white men, Jogues and his companions gazed on the romantic lake that bears the name, not of its gentle discoverer, but of the dull Hnoverian king.
Again the canoes were launched, and the wild flotilla glided on its way, - now in the shadow of the heights, now on the broad expanse, now among the devious channels of the narrows, beset with woody islets, where the hot air was redolent of the pine, the spruce, and the cedar.
The Iroquois landed at or near the future site of Fort William Henry, left their canoes, and with their prisoners, began their march for the nearest Mohawk town. Each bore his share of the plunder. Even Jogues, though his lacerated hands were in a frightful condition and his body covered with bruises, was forced to stagger on with the rest under a heavy load. He with his fellow prisoners, and indeed the whole party, were half starved, subsisting chiefly on wild berries. They crossed the upper Hudson, and, in thirteen days after leaving the St Lawrence, neared the wretched goal of their pilgrimage, a palisaded town, standing on a hill by the banks of the River Mohawk.
The whoops of the victors announced their approach, and the savage hive sent forth its swarms. They thronged the side of the hill, the old and the young, each with a stick, or a slender iron rod, bought from the Dutchmen on the Hudson. They ranged themselves in a double line, reaching upward to the entrance of the town; and through this "narrow road of Paradise", as Jogues calls it, the captives were led in single file, Couture in front, after him a half-score of Hurons, and at last Jogues. As they passed, they were saluted with yells, screeches, and a tempest of blows. One, heavier than the others, knocked Jogues breath from his body, and stretched him on the ground; but it was death to lie there, and, regaining his feet, he staggered on with the rest. When they reached the town, the blows ceased, and they were all placed on a scaffold, or high platform, in the middle of the place. The three Frenchmen had fared the worst, and were frightfully disfigured. Goupil, especially, was streaming with blood, and livid with bruises from head to foot.
They were allowed a few minutes to recover their breath, undisturbed, except by the hooting and gibes of the mob below. Then a chief called out, " Come let us caress these Frenchmen" - and the crowd, knife in hand, began to mount the scaffold. They ordered a Christian Algonquin woman, a prisoner among them, to cut off Jogues's left thumb, which she did; and a thumb of Goupil was also severed, a clam-shell being used as the instrument, in order to increase the pain. It is needless to specify further the tortures to which they were subjected, all designed to cause the greatest possible suffering without endangering life. At night, they were removed from the scaffold, and placed in one of the houses, each stretched on his back, with his limbs extended, and his ankles and wrists bound fast to stakes driven into the earthen floor. The children now profited by the examples of their parents, and amused themselves by placing live coals and red-hot ashes on the naked bodies of the prisoners, who, bound fast, and covered with wounds and bruises which made every movement a torture, were sometimes unable to shake them off.
In the morning, they were again placed on the scaffold, where during this and two following days, they remained exposed to the taunts of the crowd. Then they were led in triumph to the second Mohawk town, and afterwards to the third, suffering at each a repetition of cruelties, the detail of which would be as monotonous as revolting.
In a house in the town of Teonontogen, Jogues was hung by the wrists between two of the upright poles which supported the structure, in such a manner that his feet could not touch the ground; and thus he remained for some fifteen minutes, in extreme torture, until, as he was on the point of swooning, an Indian, with an impulse of pity, cut the cords and released him. While they were in this town, four fresh Huron prisoners, just taken were brought in, and placed on the scaffold with the rest. Jogues, in the midst of his pain and exhaustion, took the opportunity to convert them. An ear of green corn was thrown to him for food, and he discovered a few rain-drops clinging to the husks. With these he baptized two of the Hurons. The remaining two received baptism soon after from a brook which the prisoners crossed on the way to another town.
Couture, though he had incensed the Indians by killing one of their warriors, had gained their admiration by his bravery; and, after torturing him most savagely, they adopted him into one of their families, in place of a dead relative. Thenceforth he was comparatively safe. Jogues and Goupil were less fortunate. After a while, Goupil was killed by the Indians, but Jogues did manage to escape with the help of the Dutchmen at Fort Orange.
It was not until July 5, 1644 when the Iroquois responding to an offer of peace from the French reappeared at Three Rivers, bring with them two men of renown, ambassadors of the Mohawk nation. There was a fourth man of the party, and, as they approached, the Frenchmen on the shore recognized, to their great delight, Guillaume Couture, who had long since been given up as dead. In dress and appearance he was an Iroquois. He had gained a great influence over his captors, and this embassy of peace was due in good measure to his persuasions.
It was during the negotiations, a couple of days later that Couture was returned to the French. However that winter in order to hold the Mohawks to their faith, Couture stayed with them along with Jogues.

Notes for Guillaume Couture: Our French Canadian Ancestors, Vol. 1 by Thomas J Laforest Chapter 7 - Guillaume Couture

Guillaume Couture was born in 1617 in the Parish of Saint Godard in Rouen, the capital of Normandy. His late father, also named Guillaume, taught his son to be a carpenter like himself. His mother was Madeleine Mallet and he had a sister Marie. Sometime before 1640 Guillaume left home and hearth and emigrated to Canada.

In 1640 Master Carpenter Couture found his vocation as a "donne," or lay missionary, on the staff of the Jesuit Fathers to the Huron missions in New France. However, in order to assume this status of quasi-priest, he was obliged to renounce his worldly possessions. So while at Quebec on 26 June 1641, before the Notary Martial Piraube, he made an irrevocable gift to his family back in France of "that two-thirds of his father's inheritance left to him, in the parish of Haye Aubray in Normandy."

From this time on, the good Guillaume labored among the Hurons. Father Jogues, on his return to Quebec in 1642 after six years among the Indians, mentioned Couture as one of his traveling companions. (3) We may appreciate some of the difficulties inherent in such traveling when we think of the impenetrable forests, the fragile canoes, the numberless portages, the voracious mosquitoes, not to mention the ever-menacing Iroquois. Up until this time however, Guillaume had not met any Iroquois. Before long his luck would run out.

After 15 days in Quebec, a little band of 40 men went up river to Trois-Rivieres for a few days, outfitting for the return trip to the missions. They set out on the first day of August 1642. After traveling 30 miles, paddling up river against the current, they made camp near Lake Saint-Pierre. The second day out they were attacked by an Iroquois hunting party and straight away the Hurons in the party took off.

"Another Frenchman named Guillaume Couture, seeing the Hurons run away, escaped with them and since he was swift, he was soon beyond capture by the enemy: but remorse seized him for having forsaken his Father (Jogues) and his comrade (Surgeon Rene Goupil, now a canonized Saint). He stopped short, deliberating with himself whether he should go on or go back. He about-faced to return and immediately was confronted by five Iroquois. One of them, a Mohawk Chief, aimed at him with his arquebus. The gun misfired, but the Frenchman in his turn did not miss the Indian-he shot him stone dead on the spot. The other 4 Indians fell on him with the rage of demons. Having stripped him as bare as your hand, they bruised him with heavy blows of their clubs. Then they tore out his fingernails with their teeth-crushing the bleeding ends in order to cause him more pain. Then they pierced one of his hands with a javelin and led him, tied and bound in this sad plight to the place where we were."

The trip into Iroquois territory took 13 days, a true "Way of the Cross." As for himself, Guillaume "suffered almost insupportable torment: hunger, stifling heat, the pain of our wounds, which for not being dressed, became putrid even to breeding worms. Then we encountered a party of 200 Iroquois braves returning from a hunt. They were gleeful on seeing us, they formed two facing lines of 100 on a side, armed themselves with sticks of thorns and made us pass all naked between them down a road of fury and anguish where they let go upon us numerous strong blows."

After arriving at their village and being subjected to repeated indignities, "one of these barbarians, having noted that Guillaume Couture, whose hands were torn apart, had not yet lost any of his fingers, seized one of his hands and tried to cut off an index finger with a dull knife, and as he could not succeed therein, he twisted it and in tearing at it, he pulled sinew out of the arm, to the length of a span."

Finally the prisoners were allowed to live and their tortures stopped because the Mohawks believed that they could be useful in trade for making peace. Father Jogues and Rene Goupil were kept in a small distant camp but the Indians sent Guillaume to a larger village. Here this courageous young man was adopted by an old squaw who had lost her brave in battle. Thus he was protected and treated as a member of the tribe. One can sum up this period of disruption in the life of Guillaume Couture thusly: "Vigorous, active, indefatigable, able to stand the worst misery, yet always content, habituated in all the arts dear to the savages, excellent shot, swift runner, capable of traveling the woods or paddling a canoe, this Norman, intrepid as are all Normans, was not slow to emulate the spirit of his new companions. He conformed to their ways, learned their language so much and so well that they ended up by admitting him into the councils of the nation. While his friends deplored their lot, Couture was enthroned in dignity in the midst of the Indian Sachems."

In the spring of 1645, after three years of captivity, Couture saw the arrival of an Indian who had been captured but sent back by the French Governor de Montmagny. This Iroquois brought a message that Ononthio was desirous of negotiating a peace. Two Mohawk delegates were sent back with Guillaume Couture to Trois-Rivieres to parlay. As for his homecoming, "As soon as he was recognized everyone threw their arms around him, looking on him as a man resurrected from the dead ... ."

Guillaume, now a free man, returned with the emissaries in order to make a peace treaty acceptable to the Mohawk tribe. Returning in the spring of 1646 he was celebrated everywhere as the artisan of peace. However, he would not be content until he had revisited the Huron missions and so he went back to them with Father Pijart.

Evidently the good Guillaume had learned the Indian dialects during his trips and his captivity. He was a precise interpreter, a faithful companion to the missionaries, and a powerful ambassador of the young colony accredited to the American Indians. In 1646, the Jesuit Father Buteux put on a festival in honor of Couture at Trois-Rivieres, and gave him the Indian name of Achirra, to their great delight. (9)

The government of that time was forever calling on the services of Couture: in 1657, in 1661, in 1663 and in 1666 they sent him to Albany, New Netherlands. In 1665 Guillaume accompanied Father Henri Nouvel to the territory of the Papinachois, along the north coast. Then on another expedition with some missionaries he was shipwrecked not far from a point of land nearby Rimouski, called the Pointe au Pere.

FATHER OF A PEOPLE

Guillaume Couture asked to be relieved of his vows as a lay missionary and subsequently, on 26 April 1646, the Journal of the Jesuits mentioned that the Council of the Order announced that it had unanimously approved of Guillaume's marriage. It was on 18 November 1649 that he married Anne Esmard. (11) She was baptized on 22 October 1627, in Saint Andre de Niort, Poitou. She was the daughter of the late Jean and Marie Bineau. Anne had two sisters in Canada: Barbe, wife of Gilles Michel dit Taillon, and after him, of Olivier Letardif; and Madeleine, wife of Zacharie Cloutier. The wedding of Guillaume and Anne took place in the house of Couture, at Pointe Levy, in the presence of Father Jean LeSeur, Chaplain of the Hospitalliers of Quebec. The couple engendered ten children: 6 boys and 4 girls.

Today their offspring are very numerous. However, many have forgotten their heritage because the name Couture has been lost among them. Thus, the descendants of Jean Baptiste are called Lamonde and those of Eustache are known as Bellerive. Son Louis, baptized in 1654, would go down the Mississippi and all trace of him would be lost. The daughters married into the grand families of Cote, Marsolet, Couillard, Vezier and Bourget. Three of the boys joined in marriage in one Huard family.

THE RESPECTED CITIZEN

On 15 May 1647, Guillaume Couture was granted a concesson, 5 arpents of river frontage by 40 arpents deep. He cleared and settled this land at Pointe Levy and it became the ancestral home. (12) His first neighbor was Francois Bissot; their property was separated by a brook. The Jesuits had some land nearby to the east on which was built a modest shelter called the "Cabin of the Fathers." The first Mass was probably celebrated there on 12 April 1648 by Father Pierre Bailloquet. Then in 1667, they built a beautiful church on the land of Bissot, where the first priest in residence was the Abbot Philippe Boucher. It was known as Saint Joseph up until 1690. The second neighbor of Guillaume, about 1651, was Charles Cadieu dit Courville, the fellow who operated an eel fishery. (13)

Guilluame also had a lot on which he built a house of 24 feet frontage by 40 feet deep, in the Rue Sous-le-Fort in the lower town of Quebec City, on the Place Royale.

The census of 1667 tells us that he had 20 arpents under cultivation and 6 animals. During his long absences his tenant farmer Guillaume Durand looked after things for him.

As it was necessary to rally to the defense of the colony when called upon to do so, about 1666 our Guillaume was named a Captain of Militia on the Lauzon coast, a very important responsibility at that time. In 1681 he had four field cannon in his force and it was reported that in 1690, at the age of 73, the Captain and his men opposed the advance of Phipps and his troops along the Lauzon coast. This Captain of Militia, because he could also read and write, was required to carry out the orders and proclamations of the Governor, command the troops, preside over census enumerations and convene citizen assemblies.

Moreover Guillaume was Chief Magistrate of the same territory up until his death. We know that Our Ancestors were quite capable of committing misdemeanors and it was the duty of the Magistrate to reconcile problems and differences before they went up to the Sovereign Council. The Magistrate became, in most of the litigations, judge, prosecutor, jury and arbiter. He even performed the duty of what today would be called the coroner.

TO THEIR GLORY

It was the mother who was the first to go. Anne Esmard was buried at He was married to Anne Aymard on 18 Nov 1649 in Cape Tourmente, Ste Anne Parish, Québec, Canada. Research done by Paul E. Couture in August of 1995 shows the wedding date as 11-16-1649. He references the Rootsbook.

2017. Anne Aymard ⁽¹⁾ was born on 22 Oct 1627 in St Andre, Niort, France. She was baptized on 22 Oct 1627 in St Andre de, Niort, Deux Sevres, France. She died on 17 Jan 1700 in Lauzon, Quebec, Canada. She was buried on 18 Jan 1700 in Lauzon, Levis, Quebec, Canada. She Sealed to Spouse on 15 Jan 1977 in Spouse (Guillaume Couture). She Sealed to child (LDS) Submitted. She REFN No. in 94VQ-7H. Research by Paul E. Couture shows the spelling of Aymard as Emard.
From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 Jan. 1996.

Source: Birth & Marriage - Dictionnaire Genealogique Jette. Children were:

i. Jean Baptiste Couture⁽¹⁾ was born on 6 Nov 1650 in Quebec, Quebec, Canada. Birth date may have been November 14, 1650.
ii. Anne Dit Lamonde Couture⁽¹⁾ was born on 22 Apr 1652 in Quebec, Quebec, Canada. She died on 26 Nov 1684 in Quebec, Quebec, Canada. She was buried on 27 Nov 1684 in Quebec, Quebec, Canada. Birth date may have been January 02, 1652.
iii. Louis Couture⁽¹⁾ was born on 29 Aug 1654 in Quebec, Quebec, Canada.
397 iv. Louise Couture.
v. Marguerite Couture⁽¹⁾ was born on 29 Feb 1656 in Quebec, Quebec, Canada. Birth date may have been May 07, 1656.
vi. Marie Couture⁽¹⁾ was born on 18 Jun 1658 in Point-Levy, Quebec, Canada. She died on 22 Jul 1702 in Quebec, Quebec, Canada.
vii. Charles Couture⁽¹⁾ was born on 29 Nov 1659 in Quebec, Quebec, Canada. He died on 9 Sep 1709 in Beaumont, Quebec, Canada.
viii. Guilliame Couture⁽¹⁾ was born on 11 Oct 1662 in Quebec, Quebec, Canada. He was baptized on 12 Oct 1662 in Quebec, Quebec, Canada.
ix. Eustache Couture⁽¹⁾ was born on 24 Mar 1667 in Quebec, Quebec, Canada.
1008 x. Joseph Auger Couture.