Thomas MANSEAU dit ROBIDAS

(b. 24 March 1813 , Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada d. 22 December 1886 , St Camille, Wotton, Quebec, Canada )

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Thomas MANSEAU dit ROBIDAS was born 24 March 1813 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada

Thomas MANSEAU dit ROBIDAS was the child of Joseph-Louis MANSEAU dit ROBIDAS and Therese BOISVERT and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph ROBIDAS dit MANSEAU and Catherine LAFOND (maternal) Antoine BOISVERT dit DENEVERS and Josephte COTE

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

Thomas married Marie-Catherine VALLEE 12 October 1835 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Catherine VALLEE was born 24 November 1822 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre). Marie-Catherine died 15 June 1902 in St-Camille de Wolfe, Quebec, Canada. Marie-Catherine was the child of François VALLEE and Françoise DESROCHERS.

Thomas MANSEAU dit ROBIDAS died 22 December 1886 in St Camille, Wotton, Quebec, 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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Family and Children of Thomas MANSEAU dit ROBIDAS

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Thomas MANSEAU dit ROBIDAS married

Marie-Catherine VALLEE-- Date: 12 October 1835 Place: Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada
Marie-Catherine VALLEE was the child of François VALLEE and Françoise DESROCHERS

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Children of Thomas MANSEAU dit ROBIDAS and Marie-Catherine VALLEE:

Joseph MANSEAU (b.8 May 1843, Drummondville, Canada East d. 26 October 1912, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA)
m. Marie Felonise COTE 6 November 1866 in Wotton, Québec, Canada (Saint-Hippolyte)

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1813 Birth
24 March 1813
Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada

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

1835 Marriage / Partner
Thomas MANSEAU dit ROBIDAS and Marie-Catherine VALLEE 12 October 1835, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

He was 22 years old.

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)

1843 Birth of Child
Joseph MANSEAU was born 8 May 1843, Drummondville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Frédéric-de-Drummondville)

Thomas was 30 years old.

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)

1866 Marriage of Child
Joseph MANSEAU married 6 November 1866, Wotton, Québec, Canada (Saint-Hippolyte) to Marie Felonise COTE

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.