Abraham (Amable Henry) WELLS (STERN dit NOEL)

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17 June 1832 , Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada

Died

31 July 1904 , Colchester, Vermont, USA

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Abraham Amable STERN dit WELLS Geneviève VALOIS

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Born: 17 June 1832 in Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada

Father: Abraham Amable STERN dit WELLS

Mother: Geneviève VALOIS

Maternal grandparents: Jacques VALOIS , Marguerite BOUCHER

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Abraham (Amable Henry) married Cordelia (Delia) (Leocadie) BELETTE HARPER (HARPIN) (HERPIN) abt. 1856 . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Cordelia (Delia) (Leocadie) BELETTE HARPER (HARPIN) (HERPIN) was born 21 September 1837 in Contrecœur, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Trinité-de-Contrecoeur). Cordelia (Delia) (Leocadie) died 14 July 1889 in Milton, Vermont, USA.

Abraham (Amable Henry) WELLS (STERN dit NOEL) died 31 July 1904 in Colchester, Vermont, 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.

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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Cordelia (Delia) (Leocadie) BELETTE HARPER (HARPIN) (HERPIN)
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Children of Abraham (Amable Henry) WELLS (STERN dit NOEL) and Cordelia (Delia) (Leocadie) BELETTE HARPER (HARPIN) (HERPIN)

Anna WELLS

Born: 24 April 1861, Milton, Vermont, USA
Died: 13 March 1931, Winooski, Vermont, USA

Married: Moses (Moise) TETR(E)AULT (ROWE) 4 May 1880 Place: Milton, Vermont, USA

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Birth — 1832
17 June 1832
Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada

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

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)

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

1861 Birth of Child
Anna WELLS was born 24 April 1861, Milton, Vermont, USA

Abraham (Amable Henry) was 28 years old.

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 - Milton, Vermont
1870 U.S. census, Milton, Chittenden Co., Vt., #280/ 280:
Abraham Wells, 47, male, farm laborer, $275 personal property, born Canada
Adelia, 33, female, keeping house, born Canada
Adelia, 14, female, born Massachusetts
Abraham, 11, male, born Massachusetts
Anna, 8, born Massachusetts
Ellen, 6, born Vermont
Louis, 5, born Vermont
Ike, 3, born Vermont
Hattie, 9/ 12, female, born Vermont
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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)

1880 - Milton, Vermont
1880 U.S. census, Milton, Chittenden Co., Vt., #79/ 85:
Abram Wells, 48, male, farmer, born Canada
Leah, female, 42, keeping house, born Canada
Abram, 25, male, day laborer, born Vermont
Isaac, 23, male, day laborer, born Vermont
Eliza, 16, female, born Vermont
Lewis, 14, male, born Vermont
Hattie, 12, female, born Vermont
Millie, 6, female, born Vermont
Mary, 1, female, born Vermont
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