William Nicknair b. 22 May 1891 Fort Kent Mills, Aroostook, Maine, USA d. 23 Dec 1979 Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA: Our Family History

William Nicknair

1891 - 1979 (88 years)

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Name	William Nicknair [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
Birth	22 May 1891	Fort Kent Mills, Aroostook, Maine, USA [2, 3, 4, 5]
Gender	Male
Residence	1900	Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, USA [3]
Residence	1910	Winterville Plantation, Aroostook, Maine, USA [4]
Death	23 Dec 1979	Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA [5]
Burial	Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, United States of America [5]
Person ID	I292160062943	Alwin2025
Last Modified	23 Apr 2025

Father	François Frank Nicknair, b. 16 Jun 1866, Ste Alexandre, Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada d. 30 May 1948, Winterville, Aroostook, Maine, USA (Age 81 years)
Mother	Vitaline Thibodeau, b. 8 Oct 1867, Eagle Lake, Aroostook, Maine, USA d. 16 May 1931, Winterville, Aroostook, Maine, USA (Age 63 years)
Marriage	12 Aug 1889	St Francis de LaSalle, Waterville, Kennebec, Maine, USA
Family ID	F13733	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Julie Gagnon, b. 22 Jul 1897, Eagle Lake, Aroostook County, Maine, USA d. 3 Jun 1988, Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA (Age 90 years)

Marriage 12 Sep 1914 Eagle Lake, Aroostook, Maine, USA

Children

1. Ivan David Nicknair, b. 30 Aug 1928, Quimby, Winterville Plantation, Maine

d. 22 Mar 2013, South Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

(Age 84 years)

Family ID F13596 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 23 Apr 2025

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My earliest European ancestors in North America were probably Nicolas Marsolet and Louis Hébert. However, one of my 8th great-grandmothers, the wife of Philippe Mius d'Entremont, was a Native North American of the Mi'kmaq tribe. Unfortunately, there is uncertainty about her name. She may have been called Kjipuktuk. In modern times, the name Marie Coyote Blanc has been assigned to her, but there is no evidence that this was actually her name. Her ancestors would obviously been in North America long before Europeans arrived.

The French-Canadian lines of my family tree can be confirmed by literaly thousands of DNA links that support the family tree as mapped out. And, due to a couple of lucky DNA links to 3rd cousins in Sweden, with well-documented family trees of their own, I can extend my Swedish roots back several centuries. The German links have proved much more difficult, and in most cases, I have been unable to trace my German ancestors much further back in time than their arrival in North America.