Marguerite DUQUET

Born

12 July 1806 , La Prairie, Lower Canada

Died

10 July 1884 , Essex, Tillbury, Ontario, Canada

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Andre DUQUET Marie-Sylvie BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE)

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Born: 12 July 1806 in La Prairie, Lower Canada

Father: Andre DUQUET

Mother: Marie-Sylvie BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE)

Paternal grandparents: Andre DUQUET , Marie-Angélique BABEU

Maternal grandparents: Louis BISSONNET (BISSONNETTE) , Marie-Dorothee SIMARD

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Marguerite married François BENOIT dit LIVERNOIS 6 October 1823 in La Prairie, Lower Canada . François BENOIT dit LIVERNOIS was born abt. 1790 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). François was the child of Michel BENOIT dit LIVERNOIS and Archange GAGNÉ.

Marguerite DUQUET died 10 July 1884 in Essex, Tillbury, Ontario, 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.

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Marguerite DUQUET married

François BENOIT dit LIVERNOIS
Marriage date: 6 October 1823
Marriage place: La Prairie, Lower Canada
Source: Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

François BENOIT dit LIVERNOIS was the child of Michel BENOIT dit LIVERNOIS and Archange GAGNÉ

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Name: Marguerite Duquet

[Marg Duquet]

Spouse: Francois Benoit

[Franc Benoit]

Event: Mariage (Marriage)

Marriage Year: 1823

Marriage Location: La Prairie, Québec (Quebec)

Place of Worship or Institution: Notre-Dame-de-LaPrairie-de-la-Madeleine

Date: 6 Oct 1823

Children:

Marguerite Benoit dit Livernois 1824 –

Théotiste Livernois 1825 –

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Birth — 1806
12 July 1806
La Prairie, Lower Canada

1806 Baptism
Name: M Marguerite Duquet
[M Marg Duquet]
Event: Baptême (Baptism)
Baptism Year: 1806
Baptism Location: La Prairie, Québec (Quebec)
Place of Worship or Institution: Notre-Dame-de-LaPrairie-de-la-Madeleine
Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

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

1823 Marriage / Partner
Marguerite DUQUET and François BENOIT dit LIVERNOIS 6 October 1823, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

She was 17 years old.

1823 marriage

Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

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

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.