Louis Couc-Montour: (1659 - ?)
He was the son of Pierre Couc & Marie
Miteouamigoukoue. He married [1st.] Marie-Madeleine Socokie in 1683 &
[2nd.] to Jeanne Quigesiag/Quiquetigoukoue in 1688) and their children
were; Jacques (bap.1684), Marie-Madeleine (bap.1687), Joseph
(bap.1688), Francois (b.abt.1690) & Marie-Anne (b.abt.1691).
Louis was employed by Francois Boisguillot
at the "laBaie des Puans" in 1688 and in August of 1692 he was hiring for
"des 8ta8ois.
Andrew Montour: (abt.1700 - ?)
He was the son of Roland (Telenemut) Montour
& a Iroquois woman, born in a Seneca village in New York. Andrew married
Sarah Ainse (1728-1823) in 1745 and their son was
Nicolas (abt.1760-1808). He was at Pickawillany with Croghan & Gist
in 1751 & had a brother (Lewis/Tanweson) who was an interpreter for
the French. Sarah later became a trader at Detroit and was married at least
four times.
Nicolas Montour I: (abt.1756 - 1808)
He was the son of Andrew Montour & Sarah
Ainse (bapt. at the First Dutch Reformed Church in Albany, New York) and
married Genevieve Wills in Montreal in 1798. His son Nicolas II was at
Ft.Vermillion on the Saskatchwan River 1804-06.
Nicolas was a clerk for Joseph & Benjamin
Frobisher on the Churchill River in 1774 and a clerk for Barthelemi Blondeau
in 1777. He became a partner in the North West Co. in 1784 and was at Fort
des Prairies with Peter Pangman in the winter of 1790. He retired temporarily
from the fur trade in 1792, but in 1797 was in partnership with David-Alexander
Grant & William Grant.
Pierre Montour-Menard:
He married Geneveva-Amable Sicard and their
son Jean-Marie was born in Detroit in 1769.
Joseph Montour I: (1811 - ?)
He married Angelique Barette (she was 1/4
Medawahkanton) and their children were Joseph II (b.abt.1841), Amelia (Emily)
(b.abt.1843), Sylvester (b.abt.1845), Marie Lou (b.abt.1848), Charles (b.abt.1849)
& Josephine (b.abt.1855). The children were all born in Wisconsin and
later moved to St.Paul, Minnesota.