Celeste ROY dite DESJARDINS

Born

1 February 1798 , Kamouraska, Lower Canada

Died

26 June 1892 , St-Denis, Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada

Celeste married Joseph LANGLAIS 6 February 1815 in Kamouraska, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Joseph LANGLAIS was born 10 November 1788 in Kamouraska, Province of Québec, Canada . Joseph died 10 December 1875 in Saint-Denis-de-la-Bouteilllerie, Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada. Joseph was the child of Joseph LANGLAIS dit SERIEN and Marie-Anne MARTIN .

Parents & Family of Celeste ROY dite DESJARDINS

Parents of Celeste ROY dite DESJARDINS

Father

Antoine ROY dit DESJARDINS

Mother

Marie-Louise GAGNON

Grandparents of Celeste ROY dite DESJARDINS

Paternal grandparents

Jean-Baptiste ROY dit DESJARDINS Marie-Catherine CORDEAU dite DESLAURIERS

Maternal grandparents

Jean-Baptiste-Laurent GAGNON Marie-Louise BOUCHER

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Celeste ROY dite DESJARDINS

Celeste ROY dite DESJARDINS married

Joseph LANGLAIS
Marriage date: 6 February 1815
Marriage place: Kamouraska, Lower Canada
Joseph LANGLAIS was the child of Joseph LANGLAIS dit SERIEN and Marie-Anne MARTIN

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

Children of Joseph LANGLAIS and Celeste ROY dite DESJARDINS

François LANGLAIS

Born: 28 February 1834, Kamouraska, Lower Canada
Died: 30 December 1901, Trois-Pistoles, Québec, Canada

Married: Marie-Sophie ROY 17 June 1862

RESEARCH CONTEXT

Québec Genealogy Notes

Helpful background for understanding names and places that may appear in Celeste'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 — 1798
1 February 1798
Kamouraska, Lower Canada

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

1815 Marriage / Partner
Celeste ROY dite DESJARDINS and Joseph LANGLAIS 6 February 1815, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre)

She was 17 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

1834 Birth of Child
François LANGLAIS was born 28 February 1834, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre)

Celeste was 36 years old.

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.