Louis-Roch MASSÉ

(b. 3 March 1795 , La Visitation-de-l'Île-Dupas, Lower Canada d. 18 February 1885 , La Visitation-de-l'Île-Dupas, Québec, Canada )

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Louis-Roch MASSÉ was born 3 March 1795 in La Visitation-de-l'Île-Dupas, Lower Canada

Louis-Roch MASSÉ was the child of Jean-Baptiste MASSÉ and Marguerite DÉSORCY dite LINCOUR and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptiste MASSÉ and Marie-Ursule HUS COURNOYER (maternal) Jean-Baptiste DÉSORCY dit LINCOUR and Marie-Thérèse BERARD dite LEPINE

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Louis-Roch married Marguerite HUS COURNOYER 6 April 1818 in La Visitation-de-l'Île-Dupas, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marguerite HUS COURNOYER was born 30 November 1796 in Berthierville, Québec, Canada (Berthier-en-Haut) (Ste-Genevieve-de-Berthier). Marguerite died 11 August 1857 in La Visitation-de-l'Île-Dupas, Québec, Canada (Isle Dupas). Marguerite was the child of Joseph HUS COURNOYER and Françoise HUS COURNOYER.

Louis-Roch MASSÉ died 18 February 1885 in La Visitation-de-l'Île-Dupas, 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
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

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Louis-Roch MASSÉ married

Marguerite HUS COURNOYER-- Date: 6 April 1818 Place: La Visitation-de-l'Île-Dupas, Lower Canada
Marguerite HUS COURNOYER was the child of Joseph HUS COURNOYER and Françoise HUS COURNOYER

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Children of Louis-Roch MASSÉ and Marguerite HUS COURNOYER:

Jean-Baptiste MASSÉ (b.18 August 1833, La Visitation-de-l'Île-Dupas, Lower Canada d. 22 July 1893, La Visitation-de-l'Île-Dupas, Québec, Canada )
m. Théotiste COURNOYER 15 February 1858 in La Visitation-de-l'Île-Dupas, Québec, Canada (Isle Dupas)

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1795 Birth
3 March 1795
La Visitation-de-l'Île-Dupas, 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.

1818 Marriage / Partner
Louis-Roch MASSÉ and Marguerite HUS COURNOYER 6 April 1818, La Visitation-de-l'Île-Dupas, Québec, Canada (Isle Dupas)

He was 23 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

1833 Birth of Child
Jean-Baptiste MASSÉ was born 18 August 1833, La Visitation-de-l'Île-Dupas, Québec, Canada (Isle Dupas)

Louis-Roch was 38 years old.

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.

1857 Death of Spouse/Partner
Marguerite HUS COURNOYER died 11 August 1857, La Visitation-de-l'Île-Dupas, Québec, Canada (Isle Dupas)

1858 Marriage of Child
Jean-Baptiste MASSÉ married 15 February 1858, La Visitation-de-l'Île-Dupas, Québec, Canada (Isle Dupas) to Théotiste COURNOYER

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.