Guillaume (William) THOMAS

Born

28 March 1831 , Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

Died

15 November 1884 , Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

Guillaume (William) married Judith (Judique) BOUCHER 21 November 1859 in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Judith (Judique) BOUCHER was born abt. 1835 in Pokemouche, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada. Judith (Judique) was the child of Jean Baptiste BOUCHER and Barbe ROBICHAUD .

Parents & Family of Guillaume (William) THOMAS

Parents of Guillaume (William) THOMAS

Father

John (Jean) THOMAS

Mother

Brigitte Marguerite MCGRATH (MCGRAW)

Grandparents of Guillaume (William) THOMAS

Paternal grandparents

John THOMAS Marguerite (Margaret) HIGGINSON

Maternal grandparents

Michael Stephen MCGRATH (MCGRAW) Brigitte-Félicité ROBERT dite LEBRETON

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Spouses, Marriages & Children of Guillaume (William) THOMAS

Guillaume (William) THOMAS married

Judith (Judique) BOUCHER
Marriage date: 21 November 1859
Marriage place: Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada
Judith (Judique) BOUCHER was the child of Jean Baptiste BOUCHER and Barbe ROBICHAUD

Children of Guillaume (William) THOMAS and Judith (Judique) BOUCHER

Joseph Cyprien THOMAS

Born: November 20, 1874, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: abt. 1958,

Married: Regina May LAMBERT

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1831 Baptism

28 March 1831
Tracadie

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Ancestry® Acadia, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1670-1946
Acadian Church Records 1679-1757
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

Birth — 1831
28 March 1831
Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

Baptism

Ancestry® Acadia, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1670-1946
Acadian Church Records 1679-1757
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

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

1859 Marriage / Partner
Guillaume (William) THOMAS and Judith (Judique) BOUCHER 21 November 1859, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

He was 28 years old.

Guillaume (William) THOMAS - 1859 marriage

1859 marriage

Ancestry® Acadia, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1670-1946
Acadian Church Records 1679-1757
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1874 Birth of Child
Joseph Cyprien THOMAS was born November 20, 1874, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

Guillaume (William) was 43 years old.

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)