Joseph-Isidore ROSS

Born

August 14, 1822 , La-Pérade, Lower Canada

Died

abt. 1892 , Québec Province, Canada

Age: 69

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Jean-Thomas ROSS Marie-Anne GIGUERE

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Born: August 14, 1822 in La-Pérade, Lower Canada

Father: Jean-Thomas ROSS

Mother: Marie-Anne GIGUERE

Paternal grandparents: Alexandre ROSS , Marie-Josephe AYOTTE

Maternal grandparents: Abraham GIGUERE , Marie-Jeanne MCCLURE

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

Joseph-Isidore married Marie-Anne DESY 3 February 1845 in St-Stanislas, Champlain, Québec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Anne DESY was born November 16, 1829 in Grondines, Québec, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Grondines). Marie-Anne died abt. 1892 in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada. Marie-Anne was the child of Joseph DESY and Françoise-Angele HAMELIN dite GRONDINES.

Joseph-Isidore ROSS died abt. 1892 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.

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Joseph-Isidore ROSS married

Marie-Anne DESY
Marriage date: 3 February 1845
Marriage place: St-Stanislas, Champlain, Québec, Canada
Marie-Anne DESY was the child of Joseph DESY and Françoise-Angele HAMELIN dite GRONDINES

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Children of Joseph-Isidore ROSS and Marie-Anne DESY

Marie-Josephine ROSS

Born: February 15, 1852, Saint-Stanislas, Canada East
Died: December 14, 1931, Mont-Laurier, Antoine-Labelle, Quebec, Canada

Married: Leon-Apollinaire BARON

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Birth — 1822
August 14, 1822
La-Pérade, Lower Canada

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)

1845 Marriage / Partner
Joseph-Isidore ROSS and Marie-Anne DESY 3 February 1845, St-Stanislas, Champlain, Québec, Canada

He was 22 years old.

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1852 Birth of Child
Marie-Josephine ROSS was born February 15, 1852, Saint-Stanislas, Québec, Canada (St-Stanislas-de-Batiscan)

Joseph-Isidore was 29 years old.

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.