There's a Picture Opposite Me of My Primitive Ancestry (Most Distant Living Ancestor)

Unfortunately I can't trace my ancestry back to a primitive state (although that would be pretty aweseome), only to the 1600s. With my dad's assistance, I was able to trace back the ancestry of my paternal grandmother, Dorothy Sutton née Patnode. Apparently the Patnodes are traceable pretty far back. According to Ancestry.com, my grandmother's family can be traced back all the way to a man named Nicolas Patenostre, who was born in 1587 in Berville-en-Caux, Rouen, Normandie, France and died in 1644. Unfortunately that's all the information given.

Now his son, on the other hand, DOES have some information that is at least mildly interesting. His son's name was also Nicolas, and he was born in 1626, also in Berville-en-Caux. Now this younger Nicolas decided to emigrate to Quebec, i.e. "New France" around 1650, thus establishing how at least one portion of my ancestors arrived on this wacky continent in the first place.

It appears that he learned the trade of cloth merchant, but he never actually practiced. I feel like with all the other hobbies and skills I've taken up over the years, only to forget them later, I can relate to that somehow.

According to the source on Ancestry.com, he was a landowner; he bought land, fixed it up, and then sold it. Later in life, he and the rest of his family moved to an island called  Ile d'Orleans, which doesn't appear to have changed much.

Since one of my dreams is to disappear to a far-off countryside, or some sort of remote place, later in life, I can definitely relate to this.

One of the lines in the account says "Nicolas and Marguerite seemed to be good-hearted people. peaceful, generous and appreciated." 

At least I'm not descended from thieves or something then, I suppose.