Marguerite RAICHE

(b. 4 March 1797 , Saint-Germain-de-Grantham, Lower Canada d. 25 March 1874 , Saint-Germain-de-Grantham, Québec, Canada )

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Marguerite RAICHE was born 4 March 1797 in Saint-Germain-de-Grantham, Lower Canada

Marguerite RAICHE was the child of Joseph-Marie RAICHE dit BEAUCHEMIN and Josephte GIRARD and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptiste PINARD dit BEAUCHEMIN and Agathe BARON dite LUPIEN (maternal) Joseph GIRARD and Josephte LEFEBVRE dite BELISLE

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Marguerite married Jean-Honore DUFF 11 January 1814 in Nicolet, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 11 children.
Jean-Honore DUFF was born 27 September 1793 in Bécancour, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Nativité-de-Notre-Dame-de-Becancour) (Saint-Edouard-de-Gentilly). Jean-Honore died 2 November 1884 in St-Germain-de-Grantham, Canada. Jean-Honore was the child of Jean Adam DUFF and Marie-Josephte ST-LOUIS dite LALLEMAND.

Marguerite RAICHE died 25 March 1874 in Saint-Germain-de-Grantham, Québec, 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
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Marguerite RAICHE married

Jean-Honore DUFF-- Date: 11 January 1814 Place: Nicolet, Lower Canada
Jean-Honore DUFF was the child of Jean Adam DUFF and Marie-Josephte ST-LOUIS dite LALLEMAND

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Children of Jean-Honore DUFF and Marguerite RAICHE:

Marguerite DUFF (b.20 December 1814, Nicolet, Lower Canada d. 16 May 1849, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Canada East )

Sophie DUFF (b.7 June 1816, Nicolet, Lower Canada d. , )
m. Panteleon-Leon HOUDE dit LECLERC 3 August 1835 in Drummondville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Frédéric-de-Drummondville)

Mathilde DUFF (b.25 February 1818, Nicolet, Lower Canada d. , )

Honore DUFF (b.21 July 1819, Nicolet, Lower Canada d. , )

Lucie DUFF (b.18 June 1821, Nicolet, Lower Canada d. , )

Pierre DUFF (b.22 November 1823, Nicolet, Lower Canada d. 1 September 1891, Wickham, Canada)

Stanislas DUFF (b.12 October 1827, Nicolet, Lower Canada d. , )

Norbert DUFF (b.23 March 1829, Nicolet, Lower Canada d. 4 July 1910, St-Germain-de-Grantham, Quebec, Canada)

Bonaventure DUFF (b.8 November 1830, Nicolet, Lower Canada d. abt. 1902, St-Germain-de-Grantham, Canada)

Paul Israel DUFF (b.25 February 1833, Drummondville, Lower Canada d. 4 January 1922, Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA )

Anatolie (Nathalie) DUFF (b.abt. 1845, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )
m. Louis SARRAZIN 10 October 1861

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1797 Birth
4 March 1797
Saint-Germain-de-Grantham, Lower Canada

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

1814 Marriage / Partner
Marguerite RAICHE and Jean-Honore DUFF 11 January 1814, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste)

She was 16 years old.

1814 Birth of Child
Marguerite DUFF was born 20 December 1814, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste)

Marguerite was 17 years old.

1816 Birth of Child
Sophie DUFF was born 7 June 1816, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste)

Marguerite was 19 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.

1818 Birth of Child
Mathilde DUFF was born 25 February 1818, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste)

Marguerite was 20 years old.

1819 Birth of Child
Honore DUFF was born 21 July 1819, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste)

Marguerite was 22 years old.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1821 Birth of Child
Lucie DUFF was born 18 June 1821, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste)

Marguerite was 24 years old.

1823 Birth of Child
Pierre DUFF was born 22 November 1823, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste)

Marguerite was 26 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)

1827 Birth of Child
Stanislas DUFF was born 12 October 1827, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste)

Marguerite was 30 years old.

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1829 Birth of Child
Norbert DUFF was born 23 March 1829, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste)

Marguerite was 32 years old.

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1830 Birth of Child
Bonaventure DUFF was born 8 November 1830, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste)

Marguerite was 33 years old.

1833 Birth of Child
Paul Israel DUFF was born 25 February 1833, Drummondville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Frédéric-de-Drummondville)

Marguerite was 36 years old.

1835 Marriage of Child
Sophie DUFF married 3 August 1835, Drummondville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Frédéric-de-Drummondville) to Panteleon-Leon HOUDE dit LECLERC

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)

1849 Death of Child
Marguerite DUFF died 16 May 1849, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Marguerite was 52 years old.

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.