Trying to determine when the Couturier family started to use the name Verville
I am descended from two sons of Gilles Couturier dit Labonte: Pierre (born 1677), and Jean-Baptiste (born 1679).
From what I can see, Pierre never used the name Labonte, going simply by Couturier. His son Francois seems to be the one who adopted the name Verville, which first appears at the baptism of his daughter Marie-Anne in 1753 (from then on, he seems to have gone fairly consistently by Couturier dit Verville).
Are the descendants of Francois Couturier and Francoise Despins the only branch of the family to have used the name Verville?
Gilbert Benoit
Ottawa, Ontario