Joseph DEREPENTIGNY

Born

24 October 1791 , Île-Perrot, Lower Canada

Died

1 April 1878 , Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Québec, Canada

Joseph married Françoise DEREPENTIGNY 10 February 1823 in Beauharnois, St-Clement, Quebec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Françoise DEREPENTIGNY was born 9 December 1803 in Île-Perrot, Lower Canada . Françoise died 12 March 1895 in Valleyfield, Quebec, Canada. Françoise was the child of Joachim DEREPENTIGNY and Angelique BOURBONNAIS .

Parents & Family of Joseph DEREPENTIGNY

Parents of Joseph DEREPENTIGNY

Father

Joseph DEREPENTIGNY

Mother

Agathe LEDUC

Grandparents of Joseph DEREPENTIGNY

Paternal grandparents

Joseph REPENTIGNY (DEREPENTINGY) Françoise LEFÈBVRE

Maternal grandparents

Thomas LEDUC Marguerite GIROUX

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Joseph DEREPENTIGNY

Joseph DEREPENTIGNY married

Françoise DEREPENTIGNY
Marriage date: 10 February 1823
Marriage place: Beauharnois, St-Clement, Quebec, Canada
Françoise DEREPENTIGNY was the child of Joachim DEREPENTIGNY and Angelique BOURBONNAIS

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

Children of Joseph DEREPENTIGNY and Françoise DEREPENTIGNY

Philomène DE REPENTIGNY

Born: 13 April 1837, Saint-Timothée, Lower Canada
Died: 15 January 1912, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Québec, Canada

Married: Samuel-Fabien LAVALLEE 15 August 1859

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Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1791
24 October 1791
Île-Perrot, Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

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 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1823 Marriage / Partner
Joseph DEREPENTIGNY and Françoise DEREPENTIGNY 10 February 1823, Beauharnois, St-Clement, Quebec, Canada

He was 31 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 Birth of Child
Philomène DE REPENTIGNY was born 13 April 1837, Saint-Timothée, Québec, Canada (Beauharnois)

Joseph was 45 years old.

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.