Marie-Josette SURPRENANT dite SANSOUCY

Born

27 March 1791 , L'Acadie, Lower Canada

Died

25 May 1882 , Saint-Rémi, Québec, Canada

Marie-Josette married Jerome BESSETTE 16 November 1807 in L'Acadie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Jerome BESSETTE was born 21 July 1786 in L'Acadie, Province of Québec, Canada . Jerome died 25 November 1869 in Saint-Rémi, Québec, Canada . Jerome was the child of Jean-Baptiste BESSETTE and Marie-Josette DUMAS .

Parents & Family of Marie-Josette SURPRENANT dite SANSOUCY

Parents of Marie-Josette SURPRENANT dite SANSOUCY

Father

Joseph-Léon SURPRENANT

Mother

Marie-Josephte LABERGE

Grandparents of Marie-Josette SURPRENANT dite SANSOUCY

Paternal grandparents

Joseph SURPRENANT Geneviève LAMARRE

Maternal grandparents

Guillaume LABERGE Marie PHANEUF

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Marie-Josette SURPRENANT dite SANSOUCY

Marie-Josette SURPRENANT dite SANSOUCY married

Jerome BESSETTE
Marriage date: 16 November 1807
Marriage place: L'Acadie, Lower Canada
Jerome BESSETTE was the child of Jean-Baptiste BESSETTE and Marie-Josette DUMAS

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

Children of Jerome BESSETTE and Marie-Josette SURPRENANT dite SANSOUCY

Jovide BESSETTE

Born: 9 August 1816, Saint-Constant, Lower Canada
Died: 1 March 1890, Saint-Constant, Québec, Canada

Married: Laurent HEBERT 17 November 1835 Place: Saint-Rémi, Lower Canada

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Québec Genealogy Notes

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

Québec Place Names Through History

Québec has been described by several names during different periods of its history. Knowing the period name can make older records easier to recognize.

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

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

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." Colonists of Nouvelle France used dit names as distinguishers. A settler might use one to differentiate a branch of the family from siblings, sometimes choosing a name connected with the place to which the family had relocated.

A dit name could also result from a casual adoption or from honoring the family that had raised someone. In other cases it identified the town or village in France from which the person originated. The custom ended around 1900, when people increasingly used only one name, either the dit nickname or the original surname.

Source: American-French Genealogical Society, Woonsocket, Rhode Island (www.afgs.org/ditnames/index1.html)

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Birth — 1791
27 March 1791
L'Acadie, Lower Canada

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

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

1807 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Josette SURPRENANT dite SANSOUCY and Jerome BESSETTE 16 November 1807, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie)

She was 16 years old.

1816 Birth of Child
Jovide BESSETTE was born 9 August 1816, Saint-Constant, Québec, Canada

Marie-Josette was 25 years old.

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.

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

1835 Marriage of Child
Jovide BESSETTE married 17 November 1835, Saint-Rémi, Lower Canada to Laurent HEBERT

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.