Marie Claire BRIDEAU

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16 September 1831 , Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

Died

02 February 1901 , Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

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Pierre BRIDEAU Marguerite Eugenie ARSENEAU (ARSENAULT)

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Born: 16 September 1831 in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

Father: Pierre BRIDEAU

Mother: Marguerite Eugenie ARSENEAU (ARSENAULT)

Paternal grandparents: Leon BRIDEAU , Marie Euphronsine GAUDREAU (GAUTREAU)

Maternal grandparents: Joseph Clément ARSENAULT , Marie Vénérande DESJARDINS dite LOSIER (LAUZIER)

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Marie Claire married Michel THOMAS 05 November 1850 in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada . The couple had (at least) 8 children.
Michel THOMAS was born 20 February 1829 in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila). Michel died 20 June 1914 in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila). Michel was the child of John (Jean) THOMAS and Brigitte Marguerite MCGRATH (MCGRAW).

Marie Claire BRIDEAU died 02 February 1901 in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada .
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Marie Claire BRIDEAU married

Michel THOMAS
Marriage date: 05 November 1850
Marriage place: Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada
Source: Ancestry® Acadia, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1670-1946
Acadian Church Records 1679-1757
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

Michel THOMAS was the child of John (Jean) THOMAS and Brigitte Marguerite MCGRATH (MCGRAW)

Children of Michel THOMAS and Marie Claire BRIDEAU

Marie Delima THOMAS

Born: 16 September 1851, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: ,

Michel THOMAS

Born: 27 April 1853, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: 1 May 1853, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

Adolphe Ferdinand THOMAS

Born: 2 June 1854, Saint-Isidore, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: 9 April 1936, Saint-Isidore, New Brunswick, Canada

Married: Marie Adonisse BRIDEAU 26 November 1877 Place: Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

Michel THOMAS

Born: 18 May 1856, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: ,

August THOMAS

Born: 27 April 1858, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: ,

Guillaume THOMAS

Born: 27 May 1860, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: 4 October 1946, Saint-Isidore, New Brunswick, Canada

Pierre THOMAS

Born: 11 November 1862, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: 11 January 1927, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

Ambroise THOMAS

Born: abt. 1867, , New Brunswick, Canada
Died: 26 April 1960, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

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Birth — 1831
16 September 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)

1850 Marriage / Partner
Marie Claire BRIDEAU and Michel THOMAS 05 November 1850 , Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

She was 19 years old.

Marie Claire BRIDEAU - 5 November 1850 marriage Tracadie Michel Thomas and Marie Claire Brideau

5 November 1850 marriage
Tracadie
Michel Thomas and Marie Claire Brideau

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

1851 Birth of Child
Marie Delima THOMAS was born 16 September 1851, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

Marie Claire was 20 years old.

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1853 Birth of Child
Michel THOMAS was born 27 April 1853, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

Marie Claire was 21 years old.

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1854 Birth of Child
Adolphe Ferdinand THOMAS was born 2 June 1854, Saint-Isidore, New Brunswick, Canada

Marie Claire was 22 years old.

1856 Birth of Child
Michel THOMAS was born 18 May 1856, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

Marie Claire was 24 years old.

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

1858 Birth of Child
August THOMAS was born 27 April 1858, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

Marie Claire was 26 years old.

1860 Birth of Child
Guillaume THOMAS was born 27 May 1860, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

Marie Claire was 28 years old.

1862 Birth of Child
Pierre THOMAS was born 11 November 1862, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

Marie Claire was 31 years old.

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

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.

1877 Marriage of Child
Adolphe Ferdinand THOMAS married 26 November 1877, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila) to Marie Adonisse BRIDEAU

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

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

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1894 - December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - May 1 - Charles Tupper becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - July 11 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes Prime Minister of Canada