Joseph PEPIN dit LACHANCE

Born

18 March 1795 , Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada

Died

1 January 1869 , St-Georges de Beauce, Quebec, Canada

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Charles PEPIN dit LACHANCE Marie-Josephte ISOIRE dite PROVENÇAL

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Born: 18 March 1795 in Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada

Father: Charles PEPIN dit LACHANCE

Mother: Marie-Josephte ISOIRE dite PROVENÇAL

Paternal grandparents: Antoine PEPIN dit LACHANCE , Marie-Françoise ELIE

Maternal grandparents: Germain ISOIRE dit PROVENÇAL , Angelique DUBEAU

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Joseph married Helen VACHON dite POMERLEAU 27 July 1819 in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Helen VACHON dite POMERLEAU was born 21 October 1798 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Helen was the child of Etienne VACHON dit POMERLEAU and Marie-Reine LANGELIER.

Joseph PEPIN dit LACHANCE died 1 January 1869 in St-Georges de Beauce, Quebec, 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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Joseph PEPIN dit LACHANCE married

Helen VACHON dite POMERLEAU
Marriage date: 27 July 1819
Marriage place: Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Lower Canada
Helen VACHON dite POMERLEAU was the child of Etienne VACHON dit POMERLEAU and Marie-Reine LANGELIER

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Children of Joseph PEPIN dit LACHANCE and Helen VACHON dite POMERLEAU

Helene PEPIN dite LACHANCE

Born: 2 May 1820, Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada
Died: 29 November 1899, Beauceville, Québec, Canada

Married: Louis NADEAU 14 January 1836 Place: Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce)

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Birth — 1795
18 March 1795
Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada

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
Joseph PEPIN dit LACHANCE and Helen VACHON dite POMERLEAU 27 July 1819, Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Québec, Canada

He was 24 years old.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1820 Birth of Child
Helene PEPIN dite LACHANCE was born 2 May 1820, Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce)

Joseph was 25 years old.

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 Marriage of Child
Helene PEPIN dite LACHANCE married 14 January 1836, Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce) to Louis NADEAU

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.