Charles DESSAINT dit ST-PIERRE

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26 January 1794 , Montmagny, Lower Canada

Died

9 December 1878 , St-Herménégilde, Stanstead, Quebec, Canada

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Charles DESSAINT dit ST-PIERRE Marguerite BOULET (BOULAY)

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Born: 26 January 1794 in Montmagny, Lower Canada

Father: Charles DESSAINT dit ST-PIERRE

Mother: Marguerite BOULET (BOULAY)

Paternal grandparents: Ignace ST-PIERRE dit DESSAINT , Madeleine PROULX

Maternal grandparents: Robert BOULET (BOULAY) , Marie-Josephte RENAUD

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Charles married Marguerite LAFOND 8 September 1817 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marguerite LAFOND was born 29 September 1794 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre). Marguerite died 23 August 1875 in Coaticook, Québec, Canada. Marguerite was the child of Antoine LAFOND and Geneviève LEFEBVRE dite DESCÔTEAUX.

Charles DESSAINT dit ST-PIERRE died 9 December 1878 in St-Herménégilde, Stanstead, Quebec, 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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Charles DESSAINT dit ST-PIERRE married

Marguerite LAFOND
Marriage date: 8 September 1817
Marriage place: Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada
Marguerite LAFOND was the child of Antoine LAFOND and Geneviève LEFEBVRE dite DESCÔTEAUX

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Charles DESSAINT

Born: 6 October 1819, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada
Died: ,

Married: Mathilde CAYA 19 October 1840 Place: Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1794
26 January 1794
Montmagny, Lower Canada

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

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1817 Marriage / Partner
Charles DESSAINT dit ST-PIERRE and Marguerite LAFOND 8 September 1817, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

He was 23 years old.

1818 - Canada's border is defined as the 49th Parallel from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains.

1819 Birth of Child
Charles DESSAINT was born 6 October 1819, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Charles was 25 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

1840 Marriage of Child
Charles DESSAINT married 19 October 1840, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada to Mathilde CAYA

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

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.