Emilie GENEST dite LABARRE

Born

13 April 1824 , Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Lower Canada

Died

26 March 1895 , Québec Province, Canada

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Joseph GENEST dit LABARRE Marguerite BERGERON

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Born: 13 April 1824 in Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Lower Canada

Father: Joseph GENEST dit LABARRE

Mother: Marguerite BERGERON

Paternal grandparents: Alexis GENEST dit LABARRE , Josephte BARON

Maternal grandparents: François BERGERON , Geneviève FORTIER

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Emilie married Louis DUBOIS 25 February 1851 in Saint-Nicolas, Lévis, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Louis DUBOIS was born 28 October 1831 in Saint-Nicolas, Lévis, Québec, Canada . Louis died 8 May 1892 in Plessisville, L'Érable, Quebec, Canada. Louis was the child of Louis DUBOIS and Louise THERRIEN.

Emilie GENEST dite LABARRE died 26 March 1895 in Québec Province, 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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

Québec Généalogie - What is a 'dit/dite' name? When the first settlers came to Québec from France it was a custom to add a 'dit' nickname to the surname. The English translation of 'dit' is 'said'. The Colonists of Nouvelle France added 'dit' names as distinguishers. A settler might have wanted to differentiate their family from their siblings by taking a 'dit' name that described the locale to which they had relocated. The acquiring of a 'dit' name might also be the result of a casual adoption, whereby the person wanted to honor the family who had raised them. Another reason was also to distinguish themselves by taking as a 'dit' name the town or village in France from which they originated. This custom ended around 1900 when people began using only one name, either the 'dit' nickname or their original surname.

Source: American-French Genealogical Society, Woonsocket, Rhode Island (www.afgs.org/ditnames/index1.html)

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Emilie GENEST dite LABARRE married

Louis DUBOIS
Marriage date: 25 February 1851
Marriage place: Saint-Nicolas, Lévis, Canada East
Louis DUBOIS was the child of Louis DUBOIS and Louise THERRIEN

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Children of Louis DUBOIS and Emilie GENEST dite LABARRE

Louis DUBOIS

Born: 19 December 1851, Plessisville, Canada East
Died: 24 September 1923, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

Married: Beatrice COTE 13 May 1873

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Birth — 1824
13 April 1824
Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Lower Canada

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)

1851 Marriage / Partner
Emilie GENEST dite LABARRE and Louis DUBOIS 25 February 1851, Saint-Nicolas, Lévis, Québec, Canada

She was 26 years old.

1851 Birth of Child
Louis DUBOIS was born 19 December 1851, Plessisville, Québec, Canada (Somerset)

Emilie was 27 years old.

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.