Titameg (Savagasse) Favel (1750 - abt. 1825)

Born 1750 in Swampy Cree Indian Settlement, York Factory, Rupert's Land

Descendants

Died about 1825 at about age 75 in Brandon house, Rupert's Land

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Biography of Titameg

Titameg was Cree.

Titameg (Savagasse) Favel was a Canadian First Peoples and member of the Cree Nation.

• Titameg was born about 1750 in Rupert's Land Swampy Cree Village (York Factory) and married John Favell, Jr according to the custom of the day. She was called his 'Country Wife.," When he and Titameg were married he was the second -in command- for the Hudson Bay Company at Moose Factory. John was born before 1740 in Southwark, England. And like many of the Hudson Bay Company's male employees John started a new family Rupert's Land.

• When John Favell died November 2, 1784 at Henley House, Rupert's Land, he was in his 20th year of service with HCB. During this time his positions included Writer, Second Accountant, Second in Command, Master and finally Deputy. He left a will concerned with proper future provisions for his Indian wife Titameg and their children, Jane, Humphrey Martin, Mary and Thomas.

• More About Titameg: Namesake: Titameg means 'Whitefish' Nationality: CREE Native

• Children of John Favel and Titameg are:

• Humphrey Martin Favel, born 1771 in Rupert's Land (North West); died 10 Mar 1810 in Brandon House, NWT (MB); married Jenny Abt. 1784 in Rupert's Land.

• Mary Favel, born 1775 in NWT; married John McKay 1791 in NWT; born 1763 in Scotland.More About John McKay and Mary Favel:Marriage: 1791, NWT

• Thomas Favel, born 1781 in NWT; married Sally 1797; born 1780.More About Sally:Nationality: CREE Native, Marriage: 1797

• Jane Favel, born 1770

Research Notes

• The categories Métis on this profile are for the children of this woman - she was full Cree from all accounts

See Also

• Grateful Prey - a fascinating work about the history and lives of the Cree Brightman, Robert. Grateful Prey: Rock Cree Human-Animal Relationships. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0f59n6tb/

• Bradburn, Morris - blog - https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/2253378-history-of-the-manitoba-swampy-cree-nation

Sources

• https://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=thomas281&id=I034701

• http://nebula.wsimg.com/6d3464252fd211afd30cfab5bab020d5?AccessKeyId=E1BF250812EF362AF371&disposition=0&alloworigin=1

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:M7JZ-7R3 : accessed 2017-05-19), entry for Titameg.

• HBC archives

• Title: Metis Families, A Genealogical Compendium.Author: Gail Morin,Publication: Quinton Publications, Pawtucket, Rhode Island 1996(fact imported into family tree by Tom Edworthy) Repository:Media: Book Page: v1-350, v2-768, v2-770

Acknowledgements

• Thank you to Darrell Parker for creating WikiTree profile Savagasse-2 through the import of Harriet Trotchie.ged on Jul 30, 2013.