François-Xavier BEAUDRY

Born

abt. 1800 , Québec Province, Canada

Died

18 September 1900 , Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

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Joseph-Marie BEAUDRY Marie-Archange BRODEUR

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Born: abt. 1800 in Québec Province, Canada

Father: Joseph-Marie BEAUDRY

Mother: Marie-Archange BRODEUR

Paternal grandparents: Pierre BEAUDRY , Marie-Anne GUYON

Maternal grandparents: Christophe BRODEUR , Marie-Angélique LUSSIER

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

François-Xavier married Eusebie HEBERT 28 August 1838 in Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada . Eusebie HEBERT was born abt. 1814 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Eusebie died 6 November 1902 in Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada . Eusebie was the child of Louis HEBERT and Marie DEGRE.

François-Xavier BEAUDRY died 18 September 1900 in Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada .
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Recorded occupation: Cultivateur

The farmer, cultivateur, or cultivator, was a person who cultivated and exploited the land in order to get a crop.

He may have been the proprietor of his own parcel(s) of land. He could, depending on the land size, have employed other agricultural workers. If he didn't own the land, he was called a tenant farmer.
Source: tfcq.ca

farmer

Source: Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts

Life as a Cultivateur in 18th Century New France: Tilling the Soil of History

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.

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Spouse & Children of François-Xavier BEAUDRY

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François-Xavier BEAUDRY married

Eusebie HEBERT
Marriage date: 28 August 1838
Marriage place: Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada

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Eusebie HEBERT was the child of Louis HEBERT and Marie DEGRE

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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

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

1838 Marriage / Partner
François-Xavier BEAUDRY and Eusebie HEBERT 28 August 1838, Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

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)

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.