Joseph DESAUTELS dit LAPOINTE

(b. 19 November 1785 , Saint-Ours, Province of Québec, Canada d. 12 February 1870 , Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada )

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Joseph DESAUTELS dit LAPOINTE was born 19 November 1785 in Saint-Ours, Province of Québec, Canada

Joseph DESAUTELS dit LAPOINTE was the child of Pierre-Joseph DESAUTELS dit LAPOINTE and Josephte GUERTIN and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre-Joseph DÉSAUTELS dit LAPOINTE and Marguerite ALLAIRE (maternal) Jacques GUERTIN and Marguerite-Angélique CHAMBERLAND

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

Joseph married Rose BERTHIAUME 22 February 1808 in Contrecœur, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Rose BERTHIAUME was born June 1789 in Contrecœur, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Trinité-de-Contrecoeur). Rose died 10 May 1859 in Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception). Rose was the child of Jacques BERTHIAUME and Ursule VAILLANT.

Joseph DESAUTELS dit LAPOINTE died 12 February 1870 in Saint-Ours, 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.

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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Family and Children of Joseph DESAUTELS dit LAPOINTE

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Joseph DESAUTELS dit LAPOINTE married

Rose BERTHIAUME-- Date: 22 February 1808 Place: Contrecœur, Lower Canada
Rose BERTHIAUME was the child of Jacques BERTHIAUME and Ursule VAILLANT

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Children of Joseph DESAUTELS dit LAPOINTE and Rose BERTHIAUME:

André DESAUTELS dit LAPOINTE (b.9 October 1810, Contrecœur, Lower Canada d. 16 October 1870, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada )
m. Marguerite DAIGLE 12 October 1841 in Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

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1785 Birth
19 November 1785
Saint-Ours, Province of Québec, Canada

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

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

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1808 Marriage / Partner
Joseph DESAUTELS dit LAPOINTE and Rose BERTHIAUME 22 February 1808, Contrecœur, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Trinité-de-Contrecoeur)

He was 22 years old.

1810 Birth of Child
André DESAUTELS dit LAPOINTE was born 9 October 1810, Contrecœur, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Trinité-de-Contrecoeur)

Joseph was 24 years old.

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)

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

1841 Marriage of Child
André DESAUTELS dit LAPOINTE married 12 October 1841, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre) to Marguerite DAIGLE

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

1859 Death of Spouse/Partner
Rose BERTHIAUME died 10 May 1859, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception)

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.