Died: 19 April 1810, Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada
Joseph GAGNON
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Gagnon Family Legacy - Ceramic MugDid you know that most people with the Gagnon name came from three sons of Pierre Gagnon (Gaignon) and Renee Roger of Tourouvre, France, who came to New France (Quebec) around 1637? Mathurin, Jean and Pierre Gagnon, along with their wives did much to populate North America with the proud Gagnon surname!
Spouses, Marriages & Children of Joseph GAGNON
Marriage date: 2 May 1725
Marriage place: Rivière-Ouelle, Canada, New France
Marie-Thérèse MIGNAULT (MIGNEAULT) was the child of Jean-Baptiste MIGNAULT dit LABRIE and Marie-Sainte BOUCHER
Children of Joseph GAGNON and Marie-Thérèse MIGNAULT (MIGNEAULT)
Died: 19 April 1810, Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada
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- Early 1600s–1760
- Canada, New France
- 1760–1763
- Canada
- 1763–1791
- Province of Québec
- 1791–1867
- Lower Canada
- 1867–present
- Québec, Canada
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6 January 1701
Sainte-Famille-de-l'île-d'Orléans, Canada, New France
Joseph GAGNON and Marie-Thérèse MIGNAULT (MIGNEAULT) 2 May 1725, Rivière-Ouelle, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Liesse)
He was 24 years old.
1728 Birth of ChildJoseph GAGNON was born 2 March 1728, Rivière-Ouelle, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Liesse)
Joseph was 27 years old.
Marie-Thérèse MIGNAULT (MIGNEAULT) died 15 July 1729, Rivière-Ouelle, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Liesse)
Joseph GAGNON married 19 November 1753, Rivière-Ouelle, Canada, New France to Madeleine HUDON dite BEAULIEU
The oil lamp is invented (Aimé Argand, Switzerland)
30 August 1791
Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada
He died at the age of 90.
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