¹ Famille du Refuge de Geneve qui s'établit à Bâle au commencement du XVII s. venant de Mariakirch en Alsace. Armoiries : parti de gueules et d'or à un château donjonné de deux tours d'argent. surmonté d'une grenade en flammée du même.

² Paul Aebischer, sur l'origine et la formation des noms de famille dans le cantons de Fribourg (Genève: Olschki, 1923).

³ Raymond Ouimet, the author of Pierre Miville: Un ancêtre exceptionnel (Sillery, QC: Les Éditions du Pélican / Septentrion, 1988),

⁴ Raymond Ouimet, "Pierre Miville, Notes Nouvelles Sur Son Origine", Memoires de la Societé Genealogique Canadien Francaise, Vol. XXV, p. 183: As recorded by Chapelain Bessonneau,

Ce 2e may 1639 en l’eglise de St. Hilaire d’Hiers a esté baptizé Jacques fils de Pierre Miville souice de nation et Charlotte Mongis sa femme demeurans en la ville de Brouage, a esté parain Isaac Miville et marine Salomé Lomene.

⁵ PAC, MG 6, A2, Series B, Vol. B5656, pp. 61-65 is a copy of Greffe Cherbonnier, La Rochelle, 06 Apr 1643: Miville was recruited by Guillaume Desjardins for Charles de St.-Etienne.

⁷ Benjamin Sulte, Histoire des Canadiens-Francais, 1608-1880, vol. 2, p. 92

⁸ PAC, MG 6, A2, Series E is a copy of Greffe Michelon: Miville may have been come over aboard the Saint-Sauveur with Jean Juchereau and about 35 others, most of whom were engagés

⁹ Greffe Audouart, Quebec, 28 Oct 1649; According to historian J. Emond Roy, Histoire de la Seigneurie de Lauzon (Lévis: Mercie et Cie, 1897), Vol. I, pp. 69-71, "These new colonists settled atop the steep cliff that faced the Plains of Abraham (it is close to here that one speaks of today la coulée Patton, in the Parish of St. David de Lauberivière)."

¹⁰ Greffe Bequet, 06 Apr 1652; Raymond Ouimet, PAC, 1973.

¹¹ Trudel, Catalogue des Immigrants, 1632-1662 (Montreal: Hurtubise HMH, 1983), p. 216. This source is the only one I’ve seen to indicate that Miville had returned to France after his arrival in 1649. Trudel’s sources are not listed.

¹² Revue D’Histoire de L’Amerique Francaise, Vol. VI, No. 3, p. 381 quotes notary P. Moreau.

¹³ Jesuit Relations, p. 209; Revue D’Historique de L’Amerique Francaise (Montreal: L’Institute d’Historique de l’Amerique Francaise, 1952), Vol. 6, p. 423.

¹⁴ Greffe Audouart, 09 Aug 1654.

¹⁵ Ouimet, Miville, p. 2 quotes Michel Gaumont, La Place Royale, p. 46; Raymond Ouimet, Pierre Miville (1602-1669), PAC, MG 25, G162, p. 2 quotes Archives Nationales de Québec, Terrier des Indes Occidentales, 1667-1668: Lot 2145, 20 May 1656.

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¹⁷ Roy, Lauzon, Vol I, p. 153.

¹⁸ Roy, Lauzon, Vol VI, p. 357.

¹⁹ Greffe Duquet, 19 Oct 1669.

²⁰ Greffe Rageot, 15 Jun 1674:

I promise to give to Jacques Miville the quantity of 12 arpents of frontage on the St. Lawrence River, with 6 arpents on one side and 6 arpents on the other side of the St. John River, made in the presence of Mr. Morel, missionary, and Mr. Dubuisson; made at the St. John River and signed, de la Bouteillerie.

²¹ Greffe Becquet, 08 May 1676: grant of lot 9 by Marie-Anne Juchereau, Seigneur de la Pocatiere, to Jacques Miville dit Deschenes, in Roy, Grande-Anse, p. 95.

²² Greffe Rageot, 16 Jul 1677: sale of lot 9 by Jacques Miville dit Deschenes to Nicholas Huot dit Saint-Laurent, in Roy, Grande-Anse, p. 95.

²³ Greffe Rageot, 01 Sep 1677: sale by Jacques Bernier dit Jean de Paris to Jacques Miville, 02 Mar 1677, of "a lot of six arpents of frontage on the Riviere-Ouelle, and 12 arpents of ", in Roy, Grande-Anse, p. 95; Paul-Henri Hudon, Rivière-Ouelle de la Bouteillerie (Ottawa: Comité du Tricentenaire, 1972), p. 9 suggests that Miville may have moved to Rivière-Ouelle as early as 1675. He quotes a contract between Seigneur Deschamps and Pierre Dancosse, dated 19 Mar 1676, which mentions Jacques Miville as being one of his new neighbours; according to his daughter Marie’s baptismal certificate dated 23 Jul 1675, Jacques and Catherine Miville still resided on the St. Jean River.

²⁴ L'Abbé Adolphe Michaud, Généalogie des Familles de la Riviere-Ouelle (Québec: H. Chasse, 1908); Hudon, Bouteillerie also quotes a document held in the Archives du Séminaire de Quéebec, Paroisses diverses, No. 18, which states that Miville "sieur des chênes" witnessed the donation of land from Pierre Dancosse.

²⁵ Greffe Chambalon, 07 Nov 1689: leasehold agreement between Charles Aubert de la Chenaye and Jacques Miville dit Deschenes, 11 Oct 1684.

²⁶ E. Croff, Nos Ancêtres a L’ouevre a la Rivière-Ouelle (Montreal, Editions Albert Levesque, 1931), Appendix II, p. 200.

²⁷ Greffe Rageot, 07 Nov 1689: leasehold agreement between Charles Aubert de la Chenaye and Francois Miville.

²⁸ Riviere-Ouelle, born 05 Sep 1671, baptized 07 Nov 1692.

²⁹ Baptised 08 Sep 1671 at Notre Dames de Quebec. Parrain Charles Amiot, his cousin, and marraine Genevieve Bissot.

³⁰ Annales de l’Hotel Dieu de Quebec, p. 249-250.

³¹ Notre Dame de Liesse de la Rivierre-Ouelle, 13 Feb 1697: Charles Miville, aged 26, married Louise Grondin, aged 21. The event was witnessed by his uncle Francois, and brothers Jean and Charles Miville.

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