Rosalie-Virginie MOREAU

Born

May 30, 1832 , Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Lower Canada

Died

July 4, 1890 , Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada

Age: 58

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Louis MOREAU Rosalie POULIOT

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Born: May 30, 1832 in Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Lower Canada

Father: Louis MOREAU

Mother: Rosalie POULIOT

Paternal grandparents: Charles MOREAU dit BOURGEOIS , Marie ROUTHIER

Maternal grandparents: Barthelemy POULIOT , Louise BLAIS

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

Rosalie-Virginie married Francois-George PELLETIER August 21, 1849 in Beaumont, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 14 children.
Francois-George PELLETIER was born 14 April 1819 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, Canada. Francois-George died 5 May 1874 in Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice). Francois-George was the child of Germain PELLETIER and Scholastic SAUCIER.

Rosalie-Virginie MOREAU died July 4, 1890 in Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, 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.

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Rosalie-Virginie MOREAU married

Francois-George PELLETIER
Marriage date: August 21, 1849
Marriage place: Beaumont, Canada East
Francois-George PELLETIER was the child of Germain PELLETIER and Scholastic SAUCIER

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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

Born: June 30, 1850, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East
Died: September 22, 1850, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East

Archange PELLETIER

Born: 25 October 1851, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East
Died: 5 April 1853, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East

Virginie-Léopoldine PELLETIER

Born: 2 May 1853, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East
Died: 11 November 1883, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada

Married: Julien-Henri PELLETIER 21 September 1875 Place: Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Alma PELLETIER

Born: August 3, 1854, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East
Died: October 29, 1879, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada

Married: Paul-Stéfa (Paul-Étienne) GRANDBOIS September 16 1873 Place: Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Éléonore-Amarilisse PELLETIER

Born: December 9, 1855, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East
Died: 21 November 1858, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East

Narcisse-George PELLETIER

Born: 6 March 1857, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East
Died: 29 October 1912, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada

Married: Marie-Marguerite-Caroline VÉZINA 14 September 1881 Place: Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Québec, Canada

Flore-Élise PELLETIER

Born: July 23, 1858, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East
Died: February 14, 1859, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East

Dominique PELLETIER

Born: December 4, 1859, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East
Died: March 12, 1940, La Pocatière, Québec, Canada

Joseph-Emile PELLETIER

Born: 30 April 1861, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East
Died: 1 September 1861, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East

Joséphine PELLETIER

Born: August 8, 1862, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East
Died: abt. 1948, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada

Married: Paul-Stéfa (Paul-Étienne) GRANDBOIS 15 September 1884 Place: Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Marie-Hermine-Amanda PELLETIER

Born: 8 January 1864, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East
Died: 17 January 1927, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada

Married: Joseph Ferdinand RIOUX 28 November 1894 Place: Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Silvio PELLETIER

Born: December 14, 1865, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada East
Died: abt. 1909,

Married: Corrine ROY 12 September 1888 Place: Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Canada

Marie-Caroline PELLETIER

Born: abt. 1869, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: October 15, 1930,

Married: Charles-Samuel RIOUX 4 September 1889 Place: Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Mazenod PELLETIER

Born: April 24, 1870, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada
Died: March 3, 1945, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Married: Antoinette-Philômène FORTIER 14 October 1898 Place: Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

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Birth — 1832
May 30, 1832
Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Lower Canada

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

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

She was 17 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)

Rosalie-Virginie was 18 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)

Rosalie-Virginie was 19 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)

Rosalie-Virginie was 20 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)

Rosalie-Virginie was 20 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)

Rosalie-Virginie was 22 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)

Rosalie-Virginie was 23 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)

Rosalie-Virginie was 24 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)

Rosalie-Virginie was 26 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)

Rosalie-Virginie was 26 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)

Rosalie-Virginie was 26 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)

Rosalie-Virginie was 27 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)

Rosalie-Virginie was 28 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)

Rosalie-Virginie was 30 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)

Rosalie-Virginie was 31 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)

Rosalie-Virginie was 33 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)

Rosalie-Virginie was 37 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 of Spouse/Partner
Francois-George PELLETIER died 5 May 1874, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

1875 Marriage of Child
Virginie-Léopoldine PELLETIER married 21 September 1875, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice) to Julien-Henri PELLETIER

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1879 Death of Child
Alma PELLETIER died October 29, 1879, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Rosalie-Virginie was 47 years old.

1881 Marriage of Child
Narcisse-George PELLETIER married 14 September 1881, Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Québec, Canada to Marie-Marguerite-Caroline VÉZINA

1883 Death of Child
Virginie-Léopoldine PELLETIER died 11 November 1883, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Rosalie-Virginie was 51 years old.

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1884 Marriage of Child
Joséphine PELLETIER married 15 September 1884, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice) to Paul-Stéfa (Paul-Étienne) GRANDBOIS

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1888 Marriage of Child
Silvio PELLETIER married 12 September 1888, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Canada to Corrine ROY

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1889 Marriage of Child
Marie-Caroline PELLETIER married 4 September 1889, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice) to Charles-Samuel RIOUX

Death — 1890
July 4, 1890
Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada
She died at the age of 58.

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