Nicolas-François Janis

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Nicolas-François Janis / Janisse

French: François Nicolas Janis
Also Known As: "Nicolas-François Janis", "Nicolas-François Janisse", "Nicolas Francois Janis"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Trois Rivières, QC, Canada
Death: December 15, 1771 (58)
Assumption, Sandwich, Essex, Ontario, Canada
Place of Burial: Sandwich, Essex, Ontario, Canada
Immediate Family:

Son of Fancois Janis; François Janis; Private and Simone-Marie Brosseau
Husband of Marie-Thérèse Méloche and Marie Louise Janis
Father of Francois Pierre Janisse; Therese Janisse; Francois Janisse; Geneviève Janisse; Nicolas Janisse and 11 others
Brother of Marie-Charlotte Janis; Antoine Janis; Marie Claire Janis; Marie Therese Janis; Jacques Jacob Michel Janis and 5 others

Occupation: mason-lived on the South coast of the Detroit River...Sandwich
Managed by: Joseph Hubert Tratechaud
Last Updated:

About Nicolas-François Janis

Resided at South Coast of Detroit river (Sandwich, Essex county, Ontario, Canada) Genealogy of the French Families of the Detroit River Region by Rev. Father Christian Denissen. Page 591


Information gathered from ancestors.familysearch.org

http://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2015/05/who-do-you-think-you-ar...

The above picture shows the List of Commissions, Military and Civil of Nicolas Janis as 1st Company Captain for the District of Kaskaskia, dated May 14, 1779. It also lists Nicolas’ son, Jean Baptiste as Ensign.


Purchased lot in Ste Genevieve in 1789 and built The Green Tree. His son, Francois, converted building to an Inn & Tavern serving visitors from Virginia, Kentucky & Tennessee

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Nicolas-François Janis's Timeline

1713
November 14, 1713
Trois Rivières, QC, Canada
1746
October 17, 1746
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States
1748
March 29, 1748
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States
1749
October 29, 1749
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States
1751
February 9, 1751
Detroit, wayne, Michigan, United States
1752
July 19, 1752
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States
1752
Kaskaskia, Randolph Co., Illinois
1753
September 9, 1753
Detroit, MI, United States