Geneviève JOLY

Born

16 October 1799 , Sainte-Geneviève, Lower Canada

Died

22 November 1869 , Clarence Creek, Ontario, Canada

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Joseph-Marie JOLY Charlotte TRUDEAU

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Born: 16 October 1799 in Sainte-Geneviève, Lower Canada

Father: Joseph-Marie JOLY

Mother: Charlotte TRUDEAU

Paternal grandparents: Michel JOLY , Josephte SAURIOL dite SANSOUCY

Maternal grandparents: Toussaint TRUDEAU , Geneviève PATENAUDE

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Geneviève married Jean-Baptiste THIVIERGE 13 November 1820 in Sainte-Geneviève, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Jean-Baptiste THIVIERGE was born 29 April 1791 in Pointe-Claire, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joachim-de-la-Pointe-Claire). Jean-Baptiste died 8 May 1873 in Clarence Creek, Ontario, Canada (Rockland). Jean-Baptiste was the child of Jean THIVIERGE and Hippolyte-Apolline DARAGON dite LAFRANCE.

Geneviève JOLY died 22 November 1869 in Clarence Creek, Ontario, 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.

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Geneviève JOLY married

Jean-Baptiste THIVIERGE
Marriage date: 13 November 1820
Marriage place: Sainte-Geneviève, Lower Canada
Jean-Baptiste THIVIERGE was the child of Jean THIVIERGE and Hippolyte-Apolline DARAGON dite LAFRANCE

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Helene THIVIERGE

Born: 16 September 1821, Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Lower Canada
Died: ,

Married: Michel GROLEAU 24 February 1840 Place: Montebello, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours)

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Birth — 1799
16 October 1799
Sainte-Geneviève, 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.

1820 Marriage / Partner
Geneviève JOLY and Jean-Baptiste THIVIERGE 13 November 1820, Sainte-Geneviève, Québec, Canada (Pierrefonds)*

She was 21 years old.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1821 Birth of Child
Helene THIVIERGE was born 16 September 1821, Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Québec, Canada

Geneviève was 21 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 - 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

1840 Marriage of Child
Helene THIVIERGE married 24 February 1840, Montebello, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours) to Michel GROLEAU

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.