Paul BEAUDREAU dit GRAVELINE

(b. 1 November 1829 , Saint-Jude, Lower Canada d. 20 January 1899 , Saint-Louis de Richelieu, Québec, Canada )

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Paul BEAUDREAU dit GRAVELINE was born 1 November 1829 in Saint-Jude, Lower Canada

Paul BEAUDREAU dit GRAVELINE was the child of Pierre BEAUDREAU dit GRAVELINE and Marie-Anne DUPRE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Andre BEAUDREAU dit GRAVELINE and Marie-Anne COTE (maternal) Pierre DUPRE and Marie-Amable LETARTRE

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

Paul married Catherine LAVALLEE 13 August 1850 in Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Catherine LAVALLEE was born abt. 1828 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Catherine was the child of Michel LAVALLEE and Thérèse HUS COURNOYER.

Paul BEAUDREAU dit GRAVELINE died 20 January 1899 in Saint-Louis de Richelieu, 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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Family and Children of Paul BEAUDREAU dit GRAVELINE

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Paul BEAUDREAU dit GRAVELINE married

Catherine LAVALLEE-- Date: 13 August 1850 Place: Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Canada East
Catherine LAVALLEE was the child of Michel LAVALLEE and Thérèse HUS COURNOYER

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Children of Paul BEAUDREAU dit GRAVELINE and Catherine LAVALLEE:

Jean Baptiste BEAUDREAU (b.13 August 1855, Saint-Aimé, Canada East d. abt. 1918, Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA )
m. Marie Theotiste ETHIER 22 January 1878 in Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada

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1829 Birth
1 November 1829
Saint-Jude, Lower Canada

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)

1850 Marriage / Partner
Paul BEAUDREAU dit GRAVELINE and Catherine LAVALLEE 13 August 1850, Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada

He was 20 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.

1855 Birth of Child
Jean Baptiste BEAUDREAU was born 13 August 1855, Saint-Aimé, Québec, Canada (Massueville) (St-Aime)

Paul was 25 years old.

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.