Osithe Marie DUGAS

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18 December 1734 , Port Royal, Acadia

Died

20 January 1820 , Saint-Jacques, Lower Canada

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Claude DUGAS Marie Josephe MELANSON

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Born: 18 December 1734 in Port Royal, Acadia

Father: Claude DUGAS

Mother: Marie Josephe MELANSON

Paternal grandparents: Abraham DUGAS , Madeleine Marie LANDRY

Maternal grandparents: Pierre MELANSON , Anne GRANGER

Osithe Marie was deported as part of the Acadian Exile / Grand Derangement around 1755.
Learn more: What Was The Acadian Expulsion of 1755? Unraveling the Grand Dérangement

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Osithe Marie married Charles BELIVEAU 20 July 1755 in Port Royal, Acadia . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Charles BELIVEAU was born 12 October 1731 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia). Charles died 10 August 1796 in Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan). Charles was the child of Charles BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) and Marguerite GRANGER.

Osithe Marie DUGAS died 20 January 1820 in Saint-Jacques, Lower Canada .
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A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland

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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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Osithe Marie DUGAS married

Charles BELIVEAU
Marriage date: 20 July 1755
Marriage place: Port Royal, Acadia
Charles BELIVEAU was the child of Charles BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) and Marguerite GRANGER

Children of Charles BELIVEAU and Osithe Marie DUGAS

Ludivine Elisabeth BELIVEAU

Born: abt. 1757, Sturbridge, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Died: ,

Married: Germain BOURGEOIS 10 June 1776 Place: Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan)

Joseph BELIVEAU

Born: abt. 1767, Bonaventure, Province of Québec, Canada
Died: 24 September 1845, L'Assomption, Canada East

Married: Marie-Anne-Elizabeth BEAUDIN 12 September 1791 Place: Bonaventure, Québec, Canada (Saint-Bonaventure)

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Birth — 1734
18 December 1734
Port Royal, Acadia

1753 - The lightning rod is invented (Benjamin Franklin, United States)

1755 Marriage / Partner
Osithe Marie DUGAS and Charles BELIVEAU 20 July 1755, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

She was 20 years old.

1755 - Exile in Massachusetts
'Claude Dugas and his wife received an order to live in Sturbridge, but their children would be separated from them; Marguerite, Madeleine and Felecite were sent to Oxford. The two other daughters; Elizabeth (Cecile) and Hannah (Anne) were sent to Dudley, while the two sons, Charles and Joseph, left for Charlton. Charles Belliveau (Claude's son-in law) and his wife and their young children received an order to go to Leicester, but the second child was sent to Spencer. In the spring or summer of 1767, however despite anguish and misfortune, Claude Dugas succeeded in reaching the Province of Quebec with the whole family, except for Charles.'
History of the Franco-Americans of Southbridge, by Felix Gatineau, translated by Elizabeth Blood

1763 - France cedes its North American posessions to Britain by the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years War (French and Indian War). Quebec City French-speaking Catholics were now under the rule of Protestant Britain under King George III.

1775 - The Battle of Québec was fought on December 31 between the American Continental Army and British defenders of Québec City. It was the first major defeat for the Americans in the Revolutionary War.

1776 Marriage of Child
Ludivine Elisabeth BELIVEAU married 10 June 1776, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan) to Germain BOURGEOIS

1784 - The bifocal lens is invented (Benjamin Franklin, United States)

The oil lamp is invented (Aimé Argand, Switzerland)

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1791 Marriage of Child
Joseph BELIVEAU married 12 September 1791, Bonaventure, Québec, Canada (Saint-Bonaventure) to Marie-Anne-Elizabeth BEAUDIN

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

1796 Death of Spouse/Partner
Charles BELIVEAU died 10 August 1796, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan)

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.

Death — 1820
20 January 1820
Saint-Jacques, Lower Canada
She died at the age of 85.

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