Levieux Explained

Levieux is a French surname, meaning Elder; and its equivalent surname in English is Elder (surname).

Surname

• Reynaud Levieux (1613-1699), French painter from Nîmes.^[1]
• Albert-Édouard Levieux de Caligny, French diplomat to China, present at Taiping Rebellion.^[2]
• Nicolas LeVieux de La Motte d’Esgry (1486-1650, Paris), since 1611 Secretary of Finances to Louis XIII, King of France.^[3]
• Nicolas Levieux de Hauteville (1617-1678),^[4] lieutenant-general for civil and criminal affairs in the seneschal's court at Quebec, in New France, from 1651 to 1656, Canada.^[5]
• Gershom Brice Levieux (1694-1735), serge-maker produced fabrics for Hampton Court Palace under George II; Gershom was the son of French fabric manufacturer Theodore Levieux and wife Mary Brice Spencer, a lady member of the nobility of England.^[6]
• Cédric Levieux, since November 2018, France Alternates member at the PPI Board a not-for-profit international non-governmental organisation with its headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.^[7]

Enterprises

• Le Vieux & Company of Rouen, in French: Le Vieux Compagnie Maritime, it was a French Trade Shipping company based in Rouen, France, owned by Pierre Le Vieux (1700-1800) French colonial period of New France, North America.^{[8] [9]}

Alternative spellings or older variations of the surname

• Le Vieux
• Levieux or Lavieux
• Levieu or Lavieu
• Le Vieu or La Vieu
• Levieil
• Levieille
• Lavie or Levie
• Levye
• Levy
• Levi
• Delevieux
• Levyeux
• de la Vieu

Notes and References

1. Reynaud Levieux (French Wikipedia) |
2. Handbook of Christianity in China, Volume 2, Nicolas Standaert, R. G. Tiedemann, eds., p. 390
3. Nicolas Levieux, seigneur de La Motte (French Wikipedia)|
4. Nicolas Levieux (French Wikipedia)|
5. Nicolas Levieux de Hauteville, Vol 1 1000-1700, Dictionary of Canadian Biography.|http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/le_vieux_de_hauteville_nicolas_1E.html
6. Levieux Wills of Beaminster, Court of Canterbury (1384 - 1858), the Dorset OPC Project by Kim Parker, https://www.opcdorset.org/BeaminsterFiles/BeaminsterWillsPCC.htm
7. The (PPI) Pirate Parties International. Retrieved 2010-04-18, Portugal, PressEurop|https://web.archive.org/web/20110102054618/http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/234921-pirate-international-born
8. Archives nationales, Paris (hereafter abbreviated as A.N.) Colonies C118 vol. 93., 2 A.N. Colonies C118 vol. 75, fol. 27.
9. French Protestant Families in Canadian Trade (1740-1760), by J. F. BOSHER, York University, Department of History, Toronto, Canada