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Jacques Mete' Descendants

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Richard Mettez land patent

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By Cleo Francis Metty - March 05, 2008

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Questions Re: Richard Metty (Felix, Joseph, Jaques)

By Ellen Rose - July 08, 2010

I have information from Geneology of the French Families of the Detroit River Region 1701-1936, Vol. II of Richard Metty's marriage to Victoria Bissonet; I have her death as occuring prior to 1856 and that his 2nd marriage was to Rachel Knaggs. Other research states Victoire Thibeaut, married Richard on 3 Oct. 1849 and died in 1855. His death notices state he was an upstanding citizen, so I don't think polygamy was happening (although who knows, stranger things have happened). So, does anyone know when Victoria Bissonet died, who Victoria Thibeaut was, and was Rachel Knaggs, then, Richard's 2nd or third wife? Or is this a mystery worth exploring??

Margarete McKown Metty, 2nd wife of Solomon

By Bertie Brillhart - August 05, 2007

Margarete was born Dec. 28, 1852 at Indianapolis, Hancock County, Indiana, the daughter of James Andrew McKown and Maria Louisa Priddy. James Andrew was born May 1822 in Pennsylvania. His father was James Thomas McKown born 1787 Ireland and came with his father Thomas, to the United States around the age of 10 & settled in Pennsylvania. He moved to Indiana after Thomas’s death ca 1841. James Thomas McKown married Margaret McClelland who was also born in Ireland 1787 & came to U.S. about age 4. Interesting note: there is a picture of Margaret McClelland in the book "Any Given Day" written by Jessie Lee Brown Foveaux, a descendant of a sister of Margarete’s. Maria Louisa was born Jan. 1830 in Hancock Co., Indiana & died April 1858 when Margarete was about 5 years old. The McKown family came to Kansas in an ox wagon when Margarete was four years old &amp settled in St. George, Pottawatomie County. In the 1870 census Maggie was age 17 & was a milliner. Margar...

Frederic Hubert & Eugenie Archambault Metty

By Cleo Francis Metty - March 01, 2007

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.