Francois-George PELLETIER

(b. 14 April 1819 , Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada d. 5 May 1874 , Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada )
Age: 44

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Francois-George PELLETIER was born 14 April 1819 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada

Francois-George PELLETIER was the child of Germain PELLETIER and Scholastic SAUCIER and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre-François PELLETIER and Madeleine LEBEL (maternal) Joseph SAUCIER and Marie-Josephte OUELLET

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Francois-George married Rosalie-Virginie MOREAU August 21, 1849 in Beaumont, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 14 children.
Rosalie-Virginie MOREAU was born May 30, 1832 in Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Québec, Canada . Rosalie-Virginie died July 4, 1890 in Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice). Rosalie-Virginie was the child of Louis MOREAU and Rosalie POULIOT.

Francois-George PELLETIER died 5 May 1874 in Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada .

Drouin-Ancestry.com. The archives of the town of Rivière-du-Loup. Library of the archives of Canada. Book by Louis Philippe Lizotte "La Vieille Rivière-du-Loup,ses vieilles gens,ses vieilles choses. Québec Garneau, 1973.
Le Journal de Frazerville.
Le courier de Frazerville.
Le Jour.
La Patrie.
The Montreal Gazette.

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Occupation

Francois-George PELLETIER was a Merchant, mayor of Frazerville..
A marchand, or merchant, was a trader who sold a specific type of merchandise or product. Merchants handled most of the supply and distribution of products that came from Europe.
Source: tfcq.ca

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Francois-George PELLETIER married

Rosalie-Virginie MOREAU-- Date: August 21, 1849 Place: Beaumont, Canada East
Rosalie-Virginie MOREAU was the child of Louis MOREAU and Rosalie POULIOT

Né en mai 1819, à Saint-Roch des Aulnaies, fils de Germain Pelletier et de Scholastique Saucier, il épousa, à Beaumont, le 21 août 1849, Virginie Moreau, fille de Louis Moreau et de Rosalie Pouliot, en présence de son frère Elzéar et d'André-Laughlin Fraser. Il décéda à Fraserville, le 5 mai 1874, alors qu'il était le plus riche marchand du village.

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Children of Francois-George PELLETIER and Rosalie-Virginie MOREAU:

Louis-Zotique-George PELLETIER (b.June 30, 1850, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East d. September 22, 1850, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East )

Archange PELLETIER (b.25 October 1851, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East d. 5 April 1853, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East )

Virginie-Léopoldine PELLETIER (b.2 May 1853, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East d. 11 November 1883, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada )
m. Julien-Henri PELLETIER 21 September 1875 in Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Alma PELLETIER (b.August 3, 1854, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East d. October 29, 1879, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada )
m. Paul-Stéfa (Paul-Étienne) GRANDBOIS September 16 1873 in Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Éléonore-Amarilisse PELLETIER (b.December 9, 1855, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East d. 21 November 1858, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East )

Narcisse-George PELLETIER (b.6 March 1857, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East d. 29 October 1912, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada )
m. Marie-Marguerite-Caroline VÉZINA 14 September 1881 in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Québec, Canada

Flore-Élise PELLETIER (b.July 23, 1858, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East d. February 14, 1859, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East )

Dominique PELLETIER (b.December 4, 1859, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East d. March 12, 1940, La Pocatière, Québec, Canada )

Joseph-Emile PELLETIER (b.30 April 1861, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East d. 1 September 1861, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East )

Joséphine PELLETIER (b.August 8, 1862, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East d. abt. 1948, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada )
m. Paul-Stéfa (Paul-Étienne) GRANDBOIS 15 September 1884 in Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Marie-Hermine-Amanda PELLETIER (b.8 January 1864, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East d. 17 January 1927, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada )
m. Joseph Ferdinand RIOUX 28 November 1894 in Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Silvio PELLETIER (b.December 14, 1865, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East d. abt. 1909, )
m. Corrine ROY 12 September 1888 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Canada

Marie-Caroline PELLETIER (b.abt. 1869, , Québec Province, Canada d. October 15, 1930, )
m. Charles-Samuel RIOUX 4 September 1889 in Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Mazenod PELLETIER (b.April 24, 1870, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada d. March 3, 1945, Montréal, Québec, Canada )
m. Antoinette-Philômène FORTIER 14 October 1898 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

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1819 Birth
14 April 1819
Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, 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)

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

Arrival in Rivière-du-Loup.
George arrived in Rivière-du-Loup at a very young age and worked as a clerk in the store of Thomas Jones. He is interested in municipal politics and shortly after the creation of Frazerville he became a municipal councilor. In 1868 he became mayor and was reelected three times. He founded the commercial enterprise Pelletier et Lebel with Thimothée Lebel and his son, Narcisse-George, inherited it in 1879. He fought to have the new church, erected in 1856, placed on the land of Seigneur Frazer instead of in Saint-Patrice where the old one had been.
Frazerville 1850-1919. Archives of the town of Rivière-du-Loup.

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)

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

1849 Marriage / Partner
Francois-George PELLETIER and Rosalie-Virginie MOREAU August 21, 1849, Beaumont, Québec, Canada (Saint-Étienne-de-Beaumont)

He was 30 years old.

1850 Birth of Child
Louis-Zotique-George PELLETIER was born June 30, 1850, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Francois-George was 31 years old.

1851 Birth of Child
Archange PELLETIER was born 25 October 1851, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Francois-George was 32 years old.

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

1853 Death of Child
Archange PELLETIER died 5 April 1853, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Francois-George was 34 years old.

1853 Birth of Child
Virginie-Léopoldine PELLETIER was born 2 May 1853, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Francois-George was 34 years old.

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

1854 Birth of Child
Alma PELLETIER was born August 3, 1854, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Francois-George was 35 years old.

1855 Birth of Child
Éléonore-Amarilisse PELLETIER was born December 9, 1855, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Francois-George was 36 years old.

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

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

1857 Birth of Child
Narcisse-George PELLETIER was born 6 March 1857, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Francois-George was 37 years old.

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

1858 Birth of Child
Flore-Élise PELLETIER was born July 23, 1858, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Francois-George was 39 years old.

1858 Death of Child
Éléonore-Amarilisse PELLETIER died 21 November 1858, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Francois-George was 39 years old.

1859 Death of Child
Flore-Élise PELLETIER died February 14, 1859, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Francois-George was 39 years old.

1859 Birth of Child
Dominique PELLETIER was born December 4, 1859, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Francois-George was 40 years old.

1861 Birth of Child
Joseph-Emile PELLETIER was born 30 April 1861, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Francois-George was 42 years old.

1862 Birth of Child
Joséphine PELLETIER was born August 8, 1862, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Francois-George was 43 years old.

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1864 Birth of Child
Marie-Hermine-Amanda PELLETIER was born 8 January 1864, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Francois-George was 44 years old.

1865 Birth of Child
Silvio PELLETIER was born December 14, 1865, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Francois-George was 46 years old.

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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1870 Birth of Child
Mazenod PELLETIER was born April 24, 1870, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Francois-George was 51 years old.

1873 Marriage of Child
Alma PELLETIER married September 16 1873, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice) to Paul-Stéfa (Paul-Étienne) GRANDBOIS

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1874 Death
5 May 1874
Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada

He died at the age of 55.

Francois-George is buried at: Cimetière Saint-Patrice Rivière-du-Loup, Bas-Saint-Laurent Region, Quebec, Canada

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