Marie Françoise GIROUARD

(b. 30 September 1776 , Canada d. 20 December 1871 , Verchères, Québec, Canada )

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Marie Françoise GIROUARD was born 30 September 1776 in Canada

Marie Françoise GIROUARD was the child of Jacques GIROUARD and Françoise GAUDET and the grandchild of: (paternal) Germain GIROUARD and Marie DOUCET (maternal) Augustin GAUDET and Agnès CHIASSON

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

Marie Françoise married Jean-Baptiste BERNARD 21 September 1795 in Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Jean-Baptiste BERNARD was born 6 April 1769 in Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada. Jean-Baptiste died 31 May 1860 in La Présentation, Québec, Canada (La Presentation-de-la-Sainte-Vierge) . Jean-Baptiste was the child of François BERNARD and Marguerite PETITOT.

Marie Françoise GIROUARD died 20 December 1871 in Verchères, 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.

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Marie Françoise GIROUARD married

Jean-Baptiste BERNARD-- Date: 21 September 1795 Place: Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada
Jean-Baptiste BERNARD was the child of François BERNARD and Marguerite PETITOT

Children of Jean-Baptiste BERNARD and Marie Françoise GIROUARD:

Calixte BERNARD (b.18 August 1809, , Québec Province, Canada d. 7 March 1892, La Présentation, Québec, Canada )
m. Angele BENOIT 1838 in , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

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1776 Birth
30 September 1776
Canada

1784 - The bifocal lens is invented (Benjamin Franklin, United States)

The oil lamp is invented (Aimé Argand, Switzerland)

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

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

1795 Marriage / Partner
Marie Françoise GIROUARD and Jean-Baptiste BERNARD 21 September 1795, Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

She was 18 years old.

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

1809 Birth of Child
Calixte BERNARD was born 18 August 1809, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Marie Françoise was 32 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

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

1860 Death of Spouse/Partner
Jean-Baptiste BERNARD died 31 May 1860, La Présentation, Québec, Canada (La Presentation-de-la-Sainte-Vierge)

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.