Adelaide OTIS

Born

17 September 1795 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Died

2 June 1885 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada

Adelaide married Jean GAUTHIER dit LAROUCHE 17 January 1815 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 4 children.
Jean GAUTHIER dit LAROUCHE was born 7 March 1794 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada . Jean was the child of Gaspard GAUTHIER dit LAROUCHE and Jeanne BETTEZ .

Parents & Family of Adelaide OTIS

Parents of Adelaide OTIS

Father

Jean OTIS dit LANGLAIS

Mother

Thérèse-Cecile GRENON

Grandparents of Adelaide OTIS

Paternal grandparents

Jean-Baptiste OTIS dit LANGLAIS Marie-Anne TREMBLAY

Maternal grandparents

Jean-Baptiste GRENON Marie-Dorothee FORTIN

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Adelaide OTIS

Adelaide OTIS married

Jean GAUTHIER dit LAROUCHE
Marriage date: 17 January 1815
Marriage place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada
Jean GAUTHIER dit LAROUCHE was the child of Gaspard GAUTHIER dit LAROUCHE and Jeanne BETTEZ

Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec

Children of Jean GAUTHIER dit LAROUCHE and Adelaide OTIS

Charlotte GAUTHIER

Born: abt. 1815, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Joseph BOUCHARD 17 February 1835 Place: Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Eusebe GAUTHIER dit LAROUCHE

Born: 1 August 1817, Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada
Died: ,

Married: Olive GRENON 11 October 1842 Place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East

Abraham GAUTHIER

Born: 10 May 1819, Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada
Died: 6 December 1879, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada

Married: Calixte SIMARD 8 October 1844 Place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East

Suzanne GAUTHIER dite LAROUCHE

Born: abt. 1823, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 22 April 1895, Hébertville, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada

Married: Macaire BOIVIN 14 October 1845 Place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East

RESEARCH CONTEXT

Québec Genealogy Notes

Helpful background for understanding names and places that may appear in Adelaide's Québec records.

Québec Place Names Through History

Québec has been described by several names during different periods of its history. Knowing the period name can make older records easier to recognize.

Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

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Birth — 1795
17 September 1795
Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1815 Marriage / Partner
Adelaide OTIS and Jean GAUTHIER dit LAROUCHE 17 January 1815, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

She was 19 years old.

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1817 Birth of Child
Eusebe GAUTHIER dit LAROUCHE was born 1 August 1817, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Adelaide was 21 years old.

1818 - Canada's border is defined as the 49th Parallel from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains.

1819 Birth of Child
Abraham GAUTHIER was born 10 May 1819, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Adelaide was 23 years old.

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 of Child
Charlotte GAUTHIER married 17 February 1835, Les Éboulements, Lower Canada to Joseph BOUCHARD

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 Marriage of Child
Eusebe GAUTHIER dit LAROUCHE married 11 October 1842, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East to Olive GRENON

1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1844 Marriage of Child
Abraham GAUTHIER married 8 October 1844, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East to Calixte SIMARD

1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1845 Marriage of Child
Suzanne GAUTHIER dite LAROUCHE married 14 October 1845, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East to Macaire BOIVIN

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 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1879 Death of Child
Abraham GAUTHIER died 6 December 1879, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Adelaide was 84 years old.

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

Death — 1885
2 June 1885
Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada
She died at the age of 89.

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