Louis Philippe THOMAS

Born

25 January 1826 , Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

Died

16 September 1924 , Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

Age: 98
Cause of Death: vieillesse (old age)

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John (Jean) THOMAS Brigitte Marguerite MCGRATH (MCGRAW)

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Born: 25 January 1826 in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

Father: John (Jean) THOMAS

Mother: Brigitte Marguerite MCGRATH (MCGRAW)

Paternal grandparents: John THOMAS , Marguerite (Margaret) HIGGINSON

Maternal grandparents: Michael Stephen MCGRATH (MCGRAW) , Brigitte-Félicité ROBERT dite LEBRETON

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Louis Philippe married Marie Louise LOSIER 5 November 1850 in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada . The couple had (at least) 11 children.
Marie Louise LOSIER was born 28 March 1830 in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila). Marie Louise died 25 April 1880 in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila). Marie Louise was the child of Augustin LOSIER dit DESJARDINS and Marie Osithée BRIDEAU.

Louis Philippe THOMAS died 16 September 1924 in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada .
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Louis Philippe THOMAS married

Marie Louise LOSIER
Marriage date: 5 November 1850
Marriage place: Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada
Source: Ancestry® Acadia, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1670-1946
Acadian Church Records 1679-1757
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

Marie Louise LOSIER was the child of Augustin LOSIER dit DESJARDINS and Marie Osithée BRIDEAU

Marriage notes:

Name: Philip Thomas

Spouse: M Louise Lausier

Event Year: 1798-1899

Event: Mariage (Marriage)

Religion: Catholique

Place of Worship or Institution: Tracadie

Province: Acadie (Nova Scotia and New Brunswick) (New Brunswick)

Children of Louis Philippe THOMAS and Marie Louise LOSIER

Louis Prudent THOMAS

Born: 7 December 1848, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: 11 March 1940, Rogersville, Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada

Married: Eugénie MALAIS (MALLAIS) (MALLET) 23 November 1874 Place: Shippagan, New Brunswick, Canada

Married: Olive SAULNIER (SONIER) 4 March 1878 Place: Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

Honoré THOMAS

Born: 8 July 1853, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Sophie ST-PIERRE 21 February 1881 Place: Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

Marie Honorine THOMAS

Born: 20 September 1855, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: ,

Augustin THOMAS

Born: 4 January 1858, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: 9 March 1878, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

Didyme THOMAS

Born: 10 May 1860, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: 13 May 1930, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

Married: Marie Anne LAVOIE 8 January 1885 Place: , New Brunswick, Canada

Married: Marie Catherine MCGRATH 16 September 1895 Place: Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

Élizabeth THOMAS

Born: abt. 1863, , New Brunswick, Canada
Died: ,

Charlotte THOMAS

Born: abt. 1863, , New Brunswick, Canada
Died: ,

Théodorée Marie THOMAS

Born: 6 October 1867, , New Brunswick, Canada
Died: 23 February 1915, Saint-Isidore, New Brunswick, Canada

Married: Maxime LAVOIE 23 November 1885 Place: Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

Married: Pierre BRIDEAU 20 April 1890 Place: Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

Brigitte THOMAS

Born: 26 January 1869, , New Brunswick, Canada
Died: 16 February 1948, Pokemouche, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada

Married: Tiburce PAULIN 11 January 1892 Place: Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

Jean Philippe THOMAS

Born: abt. 1871, , New Brunswick, Canada
Died: ,

Joseph THOMAS

Born: abt. 1875, , New Brunswick, Canada
Died: ,

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Birth — 1826
25 January 1826
Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

Louis Philippe THOMAS - 1826 Baptism Tracadie, New Brunswich

1826 Baptism
Tracadie, New Brunswich

Ancestry® Acadia, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1670-1946
Acadian Church Records 1679-1757
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

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)

1848 Birth of Child
Louis Prudent THOMAS was born 7 December 1848, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

Louis Philippe was 22 years old.

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

1850 Marriage / Partner
Louis Philippe THOMAS and Marie Louise LOSIER 5 November 1850, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

He was 24 years old.

Louis Philippe THOMAS - 1850 Marriage, Tracadie, New Brunswick

1850 Marriage, Tracadie, New Brunswick

Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

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

1853 Birth of Child
Honoré THOMAS was born 8 July 1853, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

Louis Philippe was 27 years old.

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1855 Birth of Child
Marie Honorine THOMAS was born 20 September 1855, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

Louis Philippe was 29 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.

1858 Birth of Child
Augustin THOMAS was born 4 January 1858, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

Louis Philippe was 31 years old.

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

1860 Birth of Child
Didyme THOMAS was born 10 May 1860, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

Louis Philippe was 34 years old.

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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1867 Birth of Child
Théodorée Marie THOMAS was born 6 October 1867, , New Brunswick, Canada

Louis Philippe was 41 years old.

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

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

1869 Birth of Child
Brigitte THOMAS was born 26 January 1869, , New Brunswick, Canada

Louis Philippe was 43 years old.

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1874 Marriage of Child
Louis Prudent THOMAS married 23 November 1874, Shippagan, New Brunswick, Canada to Eugénie MALAIS (MALLAIS) (MALLET)

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 Marriage of Child
Louis Prudent THOMAS married 4 March 1878, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila) to Olive SAULNIER (SONIER)

1878 Death of Child
Augustin THOMAS died 9 March 1878, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

Louis Philippe was 52 years old.

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

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

1880 Death of Spouse/Partner
Marie Louise LOSIER died 25 April 1880, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

New Brunswick, 1881
Name: Philip Thomas
Name Note:
Gender: Male
Age: 57y
Birth Year: 1824
Birthplace: New Brunswick
Marital Status: Widowed
Occupation: Farmer
Ethnicity: English
Religion: Cath
Head of Household Name: Philip Thomas
Born During Last Year:
Event Place: Saumarez, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada
District Number: 36
Sub-District: E
Division: 1
Page Number: 13
Household ID: 942349
Family Number: 42
Digital Folder Number: 4463128
Image Number: 00431
GS Film number: 1375822
Affiliate Film Number: C-13186

Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Philip Thomas M 57y New Brunswick
Mary Ann Thomas F 24y New Brunswick
Dedime Thomas M 21y New Brunswick
Mary Charlotte Thomas F 18y New Brunswick
Mary Eliza Thomas F 16y New Brunswick
Mary Thidire Thomas F 12y New Brunswick
Briget Thomas F 12y New Brunswick
Philip Thomas M 10y New Brunswick
Joseph Thomas M 6y New Brunswick
1881 Canadian Census
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1881 Marriage of Child
Honoré THOMAS married 21 February 1881, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila) to Sophie ST-PIERRE

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

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

1885 Marriage of Child
Didyme THOMAS married 8 January 1885, , New Brunswick, Canada to Marie Anne LAVOIE

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

1885 Marriage of Child
Théodorée Marie THOMAS married 23 November 1885, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila) to Maxime LAVOIE

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

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

1890 Marriage of Child
Théodorée Marie THOMAS married 20 April 1890, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila) to Pierre BRIDEAU

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 Marriage of Child
Brigitte THOMAS married 11 January 1892, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila) to Tiburce PAULIN

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1894 - December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1895 Marriage of Child
Didyme THOMAS married 16 September 1895, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila) to Marie Catherine MCGRATH

1896 - May 1 - Charles Tupper becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - July 11 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1897 - Aspirin is invented (Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), Germany)

1901 - King Camp Gillette and William Emery Nickerson invented the world's first disposable razor blade in 1901. (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)

New Brunswick, 1901
Name: Philippe Thomas
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 31 Mar 1901
Event Place: H, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada
Gender: Male
Age:
Marital Status: Widowed
Ethnicity: Française
Nationality: Canadien
Religion: Roman Catholic
Relationship to Head of Household: Père
Birthplace: Nb
Birth Year (Estimated): 1826
Page: 12
Family Number: 82

Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Didyme Thomas Chef M 40 Nb
Philippe Thomas Père M 75 Nb
Catherine Thomas Épouse F 24 Nb
F Edomond Thomas Fils M 14 Nb
Augustin Thomas Fils M 3 Nb
1901 Canadian Census
History of Canada: A Captivating Guide to Canadian History

1901 - January 22 - Edward VII becomes King of England

1902 - July 17 - Willis Haviland Carrier designed the first modern air-conditioning system. (Buffalo, New York, USA)

1903 - The first engine-powered airplane is invented (Wilbur & Orville Wright, United States)

1906 - August 22 – The first Victor Victrola, a phonographic record player, was manufactured, revolutionizing the way people listened to music at home.

In 1906, Reginald Fessenden made the first AM radio broadcast on December 24th. This event marked a significant advancement in radio technology, paving the way for the modern broadcasting industry.

1907-1908 - The electric washing machine is invented (Alva J. Fisher, United States)

1908 - First Model-T car is produced by Henry Ford (United States)

1910 - May 6 - George V becomes King of England

New Brunswick, 1911
Name: Philippe Thomas
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1911
Event Place: Gloucester Sub-Districts 1-31, New Brunswick, Canada
District: Gloucester
Gender: Male
Age (Estimated): 85
Marital Status: Widowed
Relationship to Head of Household: Father
Birth Date: Jan 1826
Birthplace: New Brunswick
Household ID: 83
Line Number: 6
GS Film Number: 002417675
Digital Folder Number: 007526731
Image Number: 00759

Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Didime Thomas Chef M New Brunswick
Catherine Thomas Wife F New Brunswick
Joseph Agustis Thomas Son M New Brunswick
Marie Jan Thomas Daughter F New Brunswick
Philippe Arthur Thomas Son M New Brunswick
Philippe Thomas Father M New Brunswick
Marianne Mallon Adopted daughter F New Brunswick
1911 Census of Canada
History of Canada: A Captivating Guide to Canadian History

1911 - October 10 - Robert Borden becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1912 - April 15 - Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic

1913 - The assembly line is invented (Henry Ford, United States)

The bra is invented (Mary Phelps Jacob, United States)

1915 Death of Child
Théodorée Marie THOMAS died 23 February 1915, Saint-Isidore, New Brunswick, Canada

Louis Philippe was 89 years old.

1920 - July 10 - Arthur Meighen becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1921 - Charles Strite of Minnesota patents the pop-up toaster.

1921 - December 29 - William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1923 to 1927 - Television is invented (Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (Russia), Philo Taylor Farnsworth (United States))