Joseph MERCIER dit LAJOIE

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30 April 1803 , Repentigny, Lower Canada

Died

25 May 1875 , Repentigny, Québec, Canada

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Joseph MERCIER dit LAJOIE Marie-Catherine JANOT dite LACHAPELLE

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Born: 30 April 1803 in Repentigny, Lower Canada

Father: Joseph MERCIER dit LAJOIE

Mother: Marie-Catherine JANOT dite LACHAPELLE

Paternal grandparents: Charles MERCIER dit LAJOIE , Marianne LAHAISE

Maternal grandparents: Dominique JANOT dit LACHAPELLE , Marie-Rose ARCHAMBAULT

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Joseph married Anastasie THERRIEN 14 January 1828 in Repentigny, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Anastasie THERRIEN was born abt. 1803

Joseph MERCIER dit LAJOIE died 25 May 1875 in Repentigny, Québec, 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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Joseph MERCIER dit LAJOIE married

Anastasie THERRIEN
Marriage date: 14 January 1828
Marriage place: Repentigny, Lower Canada

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Children of Joseph MERCIER dit LAJOIE and Anastasie THERRIEN

Adèle MERCIER

Born: May 1842, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Stanislas LAFOND 16 August 1873 Place: Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

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Birth — 1803
30 April 1803
Repentigny, 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)

1828 Marriage / Partner
Joseph MERCIER dit LAJOIE and Anastasie THERRIEN 14 January 1828, Repentigny, Québec, Canada (La Purification-de-Repentigny) (St-Paul-l'Hermite)

He was 24 years old.

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

1842 Birth of Child
Adèle MERCIER was born May 1842, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Joseph was 39 years old.

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.

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 Marriage of Child
Adèle MERCIER married 16 August 1873, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul) to Stanislas LAFOND

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada