Louise-Marie FERLAND

(b. 18 November 1797 , Verchères, Lower Canada d. 13 November 1871 , Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada )

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Louise-Marie FERLAND was born 18 November 1797 in Verchères, Lower Canada

Louise-Marie FERLAND was the child of Louis FERLAND and Marguerite SAVIGNAC and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptiste FERLAND and Helene CRÉPEAU (maternal) François SAVIGNAC and Marie-Angélique GUILLET

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Louise-Marie married Francois-Hyacinthe ROY 4 October 1819 in L'Acadie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 10 children.
Francois-Hyacinthe ROY was born 24 October 1780 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité). Francois-Hyacinthe died 29 August 1862 in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada (St-Johns) (Dorchester). Francois-Hyacinthe was the child of François ROY and Françoise-Rose BRO (BREAULT).

Louise-Marie FERLAND died 13 November 1871 in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada .

She was originally buried in the original Saint Jean l'Evangeliste parish cemetery located on rue Laurier. When that cemetery was closed in 1910, the bodies were exhumed and reburied in Saint-Jean-sur Richelieu Cemetery. findagrave.com

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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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Family and Children of Louise-Marie FERLAND

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Louise-Marie FERLAND married

Francois-Hyacinthe ROY-- Date: 4 October 1819 Place: L'Acadie, Lower Canada
Francois-Hyacinthe ROY was the child of François ROY and Françoise-Rose BRO (BREAULT)

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Children of Francois-Hyacinthe ROY and Louise-Marie FERLAND:

Pierre ROY (b.abt. 1820, , Québec Province, Canada d. abt. 1821, , Québec Province, Canada )

Marie-Louise-Lucie ROY (b.abt. 1821, , Québec Province, Canada d. abt. 1822, , Québec Province, Canada )

Esther ROY (b.abt. 1823, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )

Pierre-Eugene ROY (b.abt. 1825, , Québec Province, Canada d. abt. 1846, , Québec Province, Canada )

Thomas ROY (b.abt. 1826, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )

Sophie ROY (b.abt. 1828, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )

Moise ROY (b.abt. 1830, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )

Marcelline ROY (b.abt. 1833, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )

Paul-Joseph ROY (b.abt. 1835, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )

Rosalie ROY (b.abt. 1836, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )

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1797 Birth
18 November 1797
Verchères, Lower Canada

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.

1819 Marriage / Partner
Louise-Marie FERLAND and Francois-Hyacinthe ROY 4 October 1819, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie)

She was 21 years old.

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

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

1862 Death of Spouse/Partner
Francois-Hyacinthe ROY died 29 August 1862, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada (St-Johns) (Dorchester)

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.