Jacques Mete' Descendants

Philip was the grandson of Daisy Metty, wife of Frank Bellmore. Houston Chronicle, September 27, 2001: An engineer working on a propulsion system for a model rocket died after an explosion at his home. Phillip E. Bellmore, 42, was working on the rocket in his back yard Tuesday evening when it exploded, said city Fire Marshal Wanda Martin. He was hit in the back by fragments, she said, and flown to Memorial Hermann Hospital but died that night during surgery. Martin said the explosion damaged the back of Bellmore's home and two neighbors' homes.  

Michael Raymond Metty, born in Michigan in 1962 joined the U. S. Navy in 1980 and after retirement from the Navy made his home the St Mary's/Kingsland Georgia area.  He died on 28 January 2013 and is buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, St. Mary's, Georgia.  

  It is not known when Jacques, our French ancestor arrived on the North American continent, but the earliest written record I have discovered thus far has been his marriage in 1730 in the village of Boucherville. Boucherville was founded as a  seigneurial  parish in 1667 by  Pierre Boucher , for whom the city was later named. Pierre Boucher came from  Mortagne-au-Perche ,  Normandy , France. After having lived in  Quebec City  and  Trois-Rivières , Boucher moved to the Percées Islands by the southern shores of  Saint Lawrence River , where he founded Boucherville. Pierre Boucher begins farming but does not receive his seigneury until 1672 when he builds a palisade to protect the community from the Iroquois The seigniory, lies on the south side of the St. Lawrence Rivern and was in the county of Chambly; bounded W. by the fief Tremblay, E. by the seigniory of Varennes and by Montarville in the rear. 114 arpents in front by two leagues...