A Little Family History

[John McGillivray]

On my mother’s side I have an Algonquin ancestor Marie Miteouamigoukoue, my 8 X great grandmother.
She was born about 1631 and was baptized on 6 Nov 1650 in Montréal. She married Pierre COUC dit LAFLEUR on 16 Apr 1657 in Trois-Rivières. She was buried on 8 Jan 1699 in Trois-Rivières.

http://www.greenerpasture.com/Ancestors/Details/1145

http://forum.autochtones.ca/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=2387

[John McGillivray]

The house built in 1721 by my 6 X Great Grandparents Josiah Rising and Abigail Nims in Oka Quebec, was one of the locations used on the filming of the movie “X-Men Apocalypse.” Magneto’s house in Poland was in fact my ancestor’s home in Oka.

I was also able to trace Abigail Nims lineage back to 13th century England. One surprise is that I am related to William Stoughton who in 1692 was lieutenant governor of Massachusetts and Chief Magistrate and prosecutor for the Salem witch trials. William Stoughton was the first cousin of my 8 X great grandfather William Smead jr. (Abigail’s grandfather), making him my first cousin ten times removed. William Stoughton and William Smead jr. share the same grandparents the Reverend Thomas Stoughton and Katherine Evelyn Montpeson (my 10 X great grandparents.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stoughton_(judge)