Marie PROULX

Born

2 May 1793 , Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada

Died

15 September 1869 , Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada

Marie married Jean-Baptiste MARTEL 5 November 1810 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Jean-Baptiste MARTEL was born 25 March 1787 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Province of Québec, Canada . Jean-Baptiste died 16 September 1863 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Canada East . Jean-Baptiste was the child of Michel MARTEL and Marie Josephe (Josette) CAYA (CAILLA) .

Parents & Family of Marie PROULX

Parents of Marie PROULX

Father

Louis PROULX

Mother

Angelique COTE

Grandparents of Marie PROULX

Paternal grandparents

Gabriel PROULX Marguerite LANGLOIS dite TRAVERSY

Maternal grandparents

Augustin-Joseph CÔTÉ Angélique GRENON

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Marie PROULX

Marie PROULX married

Jean-Baptiste MARTEL
Marriage date: 5 November 1810
Marriage place: Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada

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Jean-Baptiste MARTEL was the child of Michel MARTEL and Marie Josephe (Josette) CAYA (CAILLA)

Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec

Children of Jean-Baptiste MARTEL and Marie PROULX

Marie MARTEL

Born: abt. 1815, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

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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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Birth — 1793
2 May 1793
Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada

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

1810 Marriage / Partner
Marie PROULX and Jean-Baptiste MARTEL 5 November 1810, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

She was 17 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

1863 Death of Spouse/Partner
Jean-Baptiste MARTEL died 16 September 1863, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

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.