Daily Ancestorépoux
Époux means "husband" or "bridegroom" in French; in a marriage entry it is the groom, and les époux means the married couple.
Époux has the same form in the singular and the plural, so l'époux is the husband while les époux are the two spouses together. The female form is épouse.
After naming the couple, a marriage entry may simply say l'époux and l'épouse, and a witness may be described by his tie to one of them, as in frère de l'époux. Such labels tell you which family each witness came from.
As seen in a recordMarriage entry in a Catholic parish register, Quebec, 1860s
en présence de Jérôme Lagrandeur, frère de l'époux, et de Félix Morinville, oncle de l'épouse
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Daily Ancestor. "époux." Dictionary of Old Record Words. https://dailyancestor.com/dictionary/french/epoux. Last checked 2026-10-28.