Joseph TELLIER dit LAFORTUNE

(b. 7 April 1824 , Québec Province, Canada d. 5 June 1896 , Upton, Québec, Canada )

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Joseph TELLIER dit LAFORTUNE was born 7 April 1824 in Québec Province, Canada

Joseph TELLIER dit LAFORTUNE was the child of Jean-Baptiste TELLIER dit LAFORTUNE and Claire RACETTE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptiste TELLIER dit LAFORTUNE and Marie Helene AMIRAULT (MIREAULT) (maternal) Augustin RACETTE and Marie-Louise RIVET

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

Joseph married Rose-Celima BLEAU 5 May 1846 in L'Assomption, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Rose-Celima BLEAU was born 22 October 1827 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City). Rose-Celima died 28 October 1926 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City). Rose-Celima was the child of Joseph BLEAU and Therese MAGEAU.

Joseph TELLIER dit LAFORTUNE died 5 June 1896 in Upton, 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.

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 Joseph TELLIER dit LAFORTUNE

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Joseph TELLIER dit LAFORTUNE married

Rose-Celima BLEAU-- Date: 5 May 1846 Place: L'Assomption, Canada East
Rose-Celima BLEAU was the child of Joseph BLEAU and Therese MAGEAU

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Children of Joseph TELLIER dit LAFORTUNE and Rose-Celima BLEAU:

Eudocci TELLIER dite LAFORTUNE (b.July 1853, Saint-Jacques, Canada East d. 11 October 1920, Upton, Québec, Canada )
m. Hector BOUCHER 1 October 1870 in Hinsdale, Massachusetts, USA

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1824 Birth
7 April 1824
Québec Province, Canada

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)

1846 Marriage / Partner
Joseph TELLIER dit LAFORTUNE and Rose-Celima BLEAU 5 May 1846, L'Assomption, Québec, Canada (St-Pierre-du-Portage)

He was 22 years old.

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

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

1853 Birth of Child
Eudocci TELLIER dite LAFORTUNE was born July 1853, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan)

Joseph was 29 years old.

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.