Jacques Mete' Descendants

The period of time immediately following the 1850 census was pivotal in the breakup of Leander's family. At the time of the 1850 census, the entire family were all located within the confines of St Joseph County. The three eldest, Zoe, Gaulbertus (Gilbert) and Sophia were all married and in fact, it appears that Zoe was perhaps already a widow. She and her two daughters, Maria and Caroline, are listed in the that 1850 census as residing in the household of Leander, along with his sons Solomon and Samuel. No where can I find a record nor mention of her husband John B. Ducharme at this time. We find Leander's youngest son living with his grandparents, Francis Mouton and Catherine Navarre. Zoe may have been the first of the family to go to Kansas as there is mention of her leaving as early as 1851 with the Bertrand family and she is listed as a settler of Pottawatomie County in 1853. We know that by 1855, Solomon and Samuel were in Kansas as they are listed in the 12th district ce...

I google'd Loftsman and it was identified as "A shipyard worker who lays down the ship's lines taken from plans supplied by the drawing office" Also the following was stated about the Oscar Daniels Company of Tampa Florida. Under record of pre -WWII Shipbuilding. "Almost nothing is known about this shipyard, which was located on the Ybor Channel in Tampa"

George was a person with many birth date or so it seems. On June 4, 1898 in Samuel's application for pension George is listed as being born on Aug 7th, 1881. However, unless other evidence is unearthed, we will have to accept the recording that Lisa discovered at the courthouse, 8 July of 1882, as being the correct date. Going back to the pension file, it does appear that the information was recorded by someone other than Samuel, as the writing does not match that of his signature. Speculating a little further, he could have given the information as 8-7-1881 (dd-mm-yr) and the recorder wrote it out as Aug 7th, 1881. That would still leave the year as being incorrect, but the month and day would agree with the courthouse records. As for George's death, here is something I found several years ago: George Metty, a well-known-farmer of Mendon Township, Dies by his own hand George, a well-to-do and well-known farmer of Mendon Township was discovered dead in his bedroom, at his home ...

One of the challenges of family research is the many variations for spelling of the surname. Recently I have been doing research on our earliest ancestor to come to North America. Here is a list of the name variations I found for him. And unbelievably, most of these were recorded at Ste Famille church in Boucherville, Canada. Jacques Mete Ladouceur Forcier Jacques Moitet Jacques Moitet Munier Jacques Methee Jacques Methe Jaques Mete Jean Mete Felix Forcier Metez In addition to these spellings, I have also found later generations with spellings such as Metay,Mettay, Mettez, Metteze, Metta, Metha, Mettie, and present day Metty. French archivists have informed me that Mete' (Metay) is probably an abbreviated form of the word "metayer" which translates to tenant farmer. LaDouceur = La is an adverb meaning there, then, or that; Douceur is understood to mean softness, mildness, or gentleness As for the term Forcier, I will leave that to someone else to define.

This is the gravesite for George Metty at Mendon Cemetery in Mendon, Michigan. There is a unique story behind George. His date of birth on record at the St. Joseph County Courthouse in Centreville, Michigan, states his birthday as July 8, 1882. As you can see here, it shows 1883. I do not have a hard copy of this birth record but wrote it down on my last visit. George married Mary Strong (16 at the time of marriage, daughter of Levi and Annie Strong) on April 3, 1902. Mary died on January 31, 1907 of strichnine poisoning. George remarried Rosie M Shyler (daughter of Harry Shyler of Fulton, Michigan) on December 7, 1908. She was 22 and George was 26. It is said that George was arrested for the death of Mary Strong Metty and had committed suicide by hanging at the St. Joseph County jail. These dates are verified via courthouse documents although no hard copy. The suicide is also verified by courthouse records. It is not verified however if this happened at the jail.

This is the grave of Molly Hannah Ferguson Metty. She is buried with her first husband and a son. This grave is located in Laird Cemetery, Mendon, Michigan.

This photo is from Lee Smittendorf. The photo was taken ca. 1940. I am not sure the names in order but his mother, Marjorie Metty Smittendorf is the second from the left in the back row.

Felix and his wife Catherine are the common ancestors of almost all of the METTY descendants that I have been able to identify to date, so I thought it would be beneficial to list what I know about them and their children. Which one is your ancestor!! Felix, son of Joseph and Catherine Dufour Metty was born on the 19th of October 1766 at River aux Soble, Northeast coast of Detroit, probably in the area of Sandwich which today lies in the Canadian Province of Ontario. His wife Catherine was the daughter of Theophile Le May and Mary Angelica Peltier and was born on 24 November 1775 in Detroit. They married on 21 October 1793 at Detroit. She was buried at Detroit on 19 May 1834. Felix died 17 November 1758 at Monroe. To this union was born at least 14 children: Anthony b. May 1796 Detroit; christened 5 June 1796 Leander b. 14 Mar 1798 Detroit; died circa 1853 Mendon, MI Richard b. 16 Apr 1799 Detroit; died 26 Sep 1882 Frenchtown, Monroe Co, MI Pelagia b. 28 Aug 1801 Detroit; buried 5 May ...

Frank and Hulda (wife) sitting Jenny (wife) Bill, Samuel, Emma, Johhny L, Isa, Mother Rover (Dog), Columbus Louis (2 Years) George, Sam, Ella

The date and place of death for Jaques Metay who was born in 1710

Jacques Metay dob: 1692, France, died Nov 11, 1747, France. Married to Jacqueline Durandest Jaques Metay dob: about 1710, France, died "Date/place unknown". Married to Francoise Bau. Joseph Metay dob: May 20, 1735, Quebec Canada, died Aug 25, 1791. Married to Catherine Dufour. Felix Metay dob Oct 19, 1766, Detroit Michigan, died Nov 17, 1858, Monroe Michigan. Married to Mary Catherine Lemay. Leander Metty dob Mar 14, 1798, Detroit Michigan, died 1856, Centerville Michigan (Exact date and burial place unknown) Married Marieanne Mouton. Samuel Metty dob May 25, 1836, Monroe Michigan, died Mar 4, 1909, Mendon Michigan. Married to Sara M White. William Benjamin Metty dob Aug 25, 1874, Leonidas Michigan, died Apr 29, 1940 Lockport Township (Three Rivers area) Michigan. Married to Jennie S Latta. Gordon Eugene Metty dob Nov 4, 1914, Battle Creek Michigan, died Jul 3, 1969 Three Rivers Michigan. Married to Pearl B Steen. Donna J Metty Handy dob Aug 16, 1940, Mendon Michigan. ...

A recent clue let to the retrieval of the death certificates of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Metty from the state of Florida, and the entry for marital state on Joseph's reads "widowed 18 hrs." Examination of his wife's death certificate reveals that she died on 20 October 1918 in the Emergency Hospital at Tampa, Florida. She was 53 years of age at the time and a resident at 409 East Street for six months. The cause of death was influenza. Her remains were returned to Detroit for burial. Her husband Joseph's certificate listing the same address, and same cause of death, indicates he was 52 yoa and that he died on 21 October 1921 at the Gordon Heils Hospital in Tampa. In both instants the place of birth is shown to be Michigan. I would assume that they both died of the strain of influenza commonly referred to as Spanish influenza which raged at that time. Joseph's occupation was listed as loftsman for the Oscar Daniels Co. Can anyone describe what a loftsman would do? J...

On the occasion of the Tricentennial of the settlement of Detroit in 2001, the Detroit 300 committee sought descendants of those families who settled in the city between the years 1701 and 1750. At the time I thought that Felix's father Joseph Metty had been in Detroit as early as the 1840s and thus submitted my name as a qualifying descendant. After review of my application, the committee agree that I was a descendant of the Tricentennial Original Settlers, but based it upon descendancy from Joseph's wife Catherine Dufour who was born in Detroit on 24 Aug 1740, daughter of Peter Dufour dit Bonvivant and M.Charlotte Gloria Roch. I do not know how many persons submitted or were certified, but each of us were awarded a certificate (as shown above) and invited to participate in the celebration and sit on the reveiwing stand during the event. Unfortunately other commitments prevented my returning to Michigan then, but at least I have this certificate as a stamp of approval on m...

History of Monroe County - 1913 "Among the early French settlers upon the River Raisin were several whose vigorous constitutions and simple mode of life carried them to a venerable age, and unusually large number of centenarians having passed nearly their whole lives in Monroe County. One of these notable Frenchmen was Felix Metty, who died here, almost upon the identical spot upon which he had lived for almost a century, at the age of one hundred and two years. The deceased was born in Canada, nearly opposite Detroit, in the year 1756. And at the period of early manhood removed to Detroit, where he participated in many of the perils and sufferings incident to those times and to this frontier, until after the War of 1812, when he removed to Frenchtown and there remained till the day of his death. The old gentleman retained his vigor of body and mind until almost a year before his death, walking regularly from the residence of his son, some three or four miles to the Roman Catholic...

Hubert Metty was born 29 November, 1806 in Detroit, MI, the sixth son of Felix and Catherine Lemay Metty. Sometime during the next 24 years, he made his was to St. Antoine area, on the River Raison (present day Monroe, MI) in what was then known as Washtenaw County, Michigan. There he married Julia on the 12th of January 1830. Julia gave birth to eleven children before her death on 14 July 1854. According to an article in The Monroe Commercial Appeal, the probable cause of death was cholera. She was buried in St Mary's Cemetery, Monroe, MI. Hubert was to marry twice more and sired at least three more children before his death on 7 May 1876 at Frenchtown, Monroe County, MI. He too is buried in St Mary's Cemetery, Monroe, MI. Hubert and several of his brothers, namely, Leander, Richard and Francis, are ancestors of most of the identifiable Metty descendants today.

These are the parents of Arthur Prudence Metty. Frederic was born 20 April 1844 in the area commonly referred to as Frenchtown, Monroe County, Michigan. By 1865 he had migrated to Kankakee, Illinois where on 28 November of that year he married Eugenie Archambault. The 1876 Directory for Kankakee lists him as living on Washington Avenue and employed as a clerk. Seven of their eight children were born in Kankakee. In late 1884 or early 1885 they migrated to Minnesota where their eighth child was born on 18 August 1885 at Ghent, Lyon County. They lived in the Currie, MN community for about 25 years and then moved to Granum, Alberta, Canada where Eugenie died on 10 May 1918. She was born in 1844 in Montreal, Canada. Frederic died circa 10 December 1919 in Granum and that is where they are both buried.

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