Pierre HUNAULT dit DESCHAMPS

Born

4 September 1801 , Châteauguay, Lower Canada

Died

23 October 1861 , Saint-Timothée, Canada East

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Pierre HUNAULT dit DESCHAMPS Josephte GENDRON

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Born: 4 September 1801 in Châteauguay, Lower Canada

Father: Pierre HUNAULT dit DESCHAMPS

Mother: Josephte GENDRON

Paternal grandparents: Joseph HUNAULT dit DESCHAMPS , Catherine-Marie LEFEBVRE

Maternal grandparents: Pierre GENDRON , Marie-Desanges RUFIANGE dite LAVIOLETTE

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Pierre married Suzanne MONTPETIT 29 October 1827 in St-Clement, Beauharnois, Quebec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Suzanne MONTPETIT was born 3 August 1809 in Île-Perrot, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Jeanne-de-Chantal). Suzanne died 30 June 1893 in Saint-Timothée, Québec, Canada (Beauharnois). Suzanne was the child of Hyacinthe MONTPETIT dit POTVIN and Euphronsine LEDUC.

Pierre HUNAULT dit DESCHAMPS died 23 October 1861 in Saint-Timothée, Canada East .
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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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Pierre HUNAULT dit DESCHAMPS married

Suzanne MONTPETIT
Marriage date: 29 October 1827
Marriage place: St-Clement, Beauharnois, Quebec, Canada
Suzanne MONTPETIT was the child of Hyacinthe MONTPETIT dit POTVIN and Euphronsine LEDUC

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Suzanne HENAULT dite DESCHAMPS

Born: 11 October 1856, Saint-Timothée, Canada East
Died: 15 January 1907, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Québec, Canada

Married: Alphonse ARCHAMBAULT 19 November 1873 Place: Saint-Timothée, Québec, Canada (Beauharnois)

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Birth — 1801
4 September 1801
Châteauguay, Lower Canada

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)

1827 Marriage / Partner
Pierre HUNAULT dit DESCHAMPS and Suzanne MONTPETIT 29 October 1827, St-Clement, Beauharnois, Quebec, Canada

He was 26 years old.

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

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.

1856 Birth of Child
Suzanne HENAULT dite DESCHAMPS was born 11 October 1856, Saint-Timothée, Québec, Canada (Beauharnois)

Pierre was 55 years old.

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