Gervais LACASSE

Born

1 June 1785 , Saint-Gervais, Bellechasse, Province of Québec, Canada

Died

2 November 1869 , St-Anselme, Bellechasse, Quebec, Canada

Gervais married Genevieve ROY 5 July 1819 in Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Genevieve ROY was born abt. 1791 in Québec Province, Canada. Genevieve was the child of Joseph ROY and Geneviève BOULET .

Parents & Family of Gervais LACASSE

Parents of Gervais LACASSE

Father

Joseph LACASSE

Mother

Cecile NOEL

Grandparents of Gervais LACASSE

Paternal grandparents

Etienne CASSE (LACASSE) Marguerite ROY

Maternal grandparents

Ignace NOEL Madeleine GOSSELIN

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Gervais LACASSE

Gervais LACASSE married

Genevieve ROY
Marriage date: 5 July 1819
Marriage place: Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Lower Canada
Genevieve ROY was the child of Joseph ROY and Geneviève BOULET

Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec

Children of Gervais LACASSE and Genevieve ROY

Adelaide LACASSE

Born: abt. 1820, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Augustin MORIN 27 January 1846

RESEARCH CONTEXT

Québec Genealogy Notes

Helpful background for understanding names and places that may appear in Gervais's Québec records.

Québec Place Names Through History

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Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1785
1 June 1785
Saint-Gervais, Bellechasse, Province of Québec, Canada

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1818 - Canada's border is defined as the 49th Parallel from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains.

1819 Marriage / Partner
Gervais LACASSE and Genevieve ROY 5 July 1819, Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada

He was 34 years old.

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

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)

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.