Joseph TRAHAN

(b. 18 August 1818 , L'Acadie, Lower Canada d. 28 March 1892 , Cumberland, Rhode Island, USA )

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Joseph TRAHAN was born 18 August 1818 in L'Acadie, Lower Canada

Joseph TRAHAN was the child of ? and ?

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Joseph married Marguerite CLOUATRE 26 November 1839 in L'Acadie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marguerite CLOUATRE was born abt. 1820 in L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie). Marguerite died 8 December 1905 in Cumberland, Rhode Island, USA (Valley Falls) (Ashton) (Cumberland Hill).

Joseph TRAHAN died 28 March 1892 in Cumberland, Rhode Island, USA .
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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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Joseph TRAHAN married

Marguerite CLOUATRE-- Date: 26 November 1839 Place: L'Acadie, Lower Canada

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Children of Joseph TRAHAN and Marguerite CLOUATRE:

Joseph TRAHAN (b.9 April 1846, Marieville, Rouville, Canada East d. 9 May 1930, New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA)
m. Vitalise CARREAU 27 February 1870 in Marieville, Rouville, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir)

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1818 Birth
18 August 1818
L'Acadie, Lower Canada

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)

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

1839 Marriage / Partner
Joseph TRAHAN and Marguerite CLOUATRE 26 November 1839, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie)

He was 21 years old.

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 Birth of Child
Joseph TRAHAN was born 9 April 1846, Marieville, Rouville, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir)

Joseph was 27 years old.

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

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

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

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

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

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

1870 Marriage of Child
Joseph TRAHAN married 27 February 1870, Marieville, Rouville, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir) to Vitalise CARREAU

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.

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