flag male ancestor  Joseph  RAJOTTE

  (b. 5 December 1824 Sorel, Lower Canada   d. )  

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Joseph RAJOTTE was born 5 December 1824 in Sorel, Lower Canada

Joseph RAJOTTE was the child of Joseph RAJOTTE   and   Marie-Reine PAUL HUS and the grandchild of: (paternal)  Joseph RAJOTTE (RAGEOT) and Françoise PIZANNE (maternal)  Joseph HUS PAUL LATRAVERSE and Pélagie LAVALLÉE

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

Joseph  married  Scholastique SALVAIL 23 January 1849 in Sorel, Canada East .  The couple had (at least) 9 children.
Scholastique SALVAIL  was born 22 January 1825 in Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre).  Scholastique died 8 February 1898 Scholastique was the child of Pierre SALVAIL and Marie-Josephe OSSANT (AUSSAN).
Occupation

Joseph RAJOTTE was a Cultivateur.
The farmer, cultivateur, or cultivator, was a person who cultivated and exploited the land in order to get a crop.

He may have been the proprietor of his own parcel(s) of land. He could, depending on the land size, have employed other agricultural workers. If he didn't own the land, he was called a tenant farmer.
Source: tfcq.ca

farmer
Source: Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts

Life as a Cultivateur in 18th Century New France: Tilling the Soil of History
Did You Know? 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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