Marguerite GAUTHIER dite DELISLE

(b. 3 July 1790 , Sorel, Province of Québec, Canada d. 10 January 1876 , Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada )

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Marguerite GAUTHIER dite DELISLE was born 3 July 1790 in Sorel, Province of Québec, Canada

Marguerite GAUTHIER dite DELISLE was the child of Michel GAUTHIER dit DELISLE and Catherine HUS COURNOYER and the grandchild of: (paternal) Michel GAUTHIER dit DELISLE and Marie-Anne LAVALLÉE (maternal) Thomas-Ignace HUS COURNOYER and Brigitte-Agathe HUS MILET (MILLET)

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

Marguerite married Jean-Baptiste LEFORT 15 October 1822 in Sorel, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Jean-Baptiste LEFORT was born 15 September 1795 in Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre). Jean-Baptiste died 12 January 1882 in Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada. Jean-Baptiste was the child of Louis LEFORT and Theotiste VIGNOLA.

Marguerite GAUTHIER dite DELISLE died 10 January 1876 in Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, 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 Marguerite GAUTHIER dite DELISLE

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Marguerite GAUTHIER dite DELISLE married

Jean-Baptiste LEFORT-- Date: 15 October 1822 Place: Sorel, Lower Canada
Jean-Baptiste LEFORT was the child of Louis LEFORT and Theotiste VIGNOLA

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Children of Jean-Baptiste LEFORT and Marguerite GAUTHIER dite DELISLE:

Justine (Christine) LEFORT (b.18 November 1825, Sorel, Lower Canada d. 5 December 1903, St-Joseph, Sorel, Quebec, Canada)
m. Felix CAPLET 7 November 1848 in Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

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1790 Birth
3 July 1790
Sorel, 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)

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

1822 Marriage / Partner
Marguerite GAUTHIER dite DELISLE and Jean-Baptiste LEFORT 15 October 1822, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

She was 32 years old.

1824 - Portland cement is invented (Joseph Aspdin, England)

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

1825 Birth of Child
Justine (Christine) LEFORT was born 18 November 1825, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Marguerite was 35 years old.

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)

1848 Marriage of Child
Justine (Christine) LEFORT married 7 November 1848, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre) to Felix CAPLET

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.