Augustin MONCIAU dit DESORMEAUX

(b. 16 February 1819 , Saint-Martin, Laval, Lower Canada d. 9 September 1892 , Prescott, Ontario, Canada )

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Augustin MONCIAU dit DESORMEAUX was born 16 February 1819 in Saint-Martin, Laval, Lower Canada

Augustin MONCIAU dit DESORMEAUX was the child of ? and ?

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Augustin married Marie-Jeanne LACHAINE dite JOLICOEUR 18 June 1839 in Saint-Jérôme, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Jeanne LACHAINE dite JOLICOEUR was born 17 March 1820 in Sainte-Rose, Laval, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Rose-de-Lima). Marie-Jeanne died 29 September 1901 in Clarence Creek, Ontario, Canada (Rockland).

Augustin MONCIAU dit DESORMEAUX died 9 September 1892 in Prescott, Ontario, Canada.
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

Québec Généalogie - What is a 'dit/dite' name? When the first settlers came to Québec from France it was a custom to add a 'dit' nickname to the surname. The English translation of 'dit' is 'said'. The Colonists of Nouvelle France added 'dit' names as distinguishers. A settler might have wanted to differentiate their family from their siblings by taking a 'dit' name that described the locale to which they had relocated. The acquiring of a 'dit' name might also be the result of a casual adoption, whereby the person wanted to honor the family who had raised them. Another reason was also to distinguish themselves by taking as a 'dit' name the town or village in France from which they originated. This custom ended around 1900 when people began using only one name, either the 'dit' nickname or their original surname.

Source: American-French Genealogical Society, Woonsocket, Rhode Island (www.afgs.org/ditnames/index1.html)

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Family and Children of Augustin MONCIAU dit DESORMEAUX

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Augustin MONCIAU dit DESORMEAUX married

Marie-Jeanne LACHAINE dite JOLICOEUR-- Date: 18 June 1839 Place: Saint-Jérôme, Lower Canada

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Children of Augustin MONCIAU dit DESORMEAUX and Marie-Jeanne LACHAINE dite JOLICOEUR:

Octave DESORMEAUX (b.2 June 1847, Saint-Martin, Laval, Canada East d. 6 April 1925, Carleton, Ontario, Canada)
m. Philomene ADAM

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1819 Birth
16 February 1819
Saint-Martin, Laval, Lower Canada

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1824 - Portland cement is invented (Joseph Aspdin, England)

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1836 - July 21 - Opening of the first railway in Canada from La Prairie to St. Jean, Quebec

1837 - June 20 - Victoria becomes Queen of England

1839 - February 24 - Steam shovel patented by William Smith Otis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1839 Marriage / Partner
Augustin MONCIAU dit DESORMEAUX and Marie-Jeanne LACHAINE dite JOLICOEUR 18 June 1839, Saint-Jérôme, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jerome)

He was 20 years old.

1840 to 1860s - French-Canadian emigration to the United States

1841 - February 11 – Act of Union - The two colonies of The Canadas are merged into the United Province of Canada

1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1847 Birth of Child
Octave DESORMEAUX was born 2 June 1847, Saint-Martin, Laval, Québec, Canada

Augustin was 28 years old.

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1857 - Ottawa chosen by Queen Victoria as the capital of the united colony of Canada.

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1867 - Canada becomes a sovereign nation by an act of the British Parliament (the British North America Act). Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick are united as the Dominion of Canada.