Jean-Baptiste FAUCHER

Born

12 June 1795 , Sainte-Famille-de-l'île-d'Orléans, Lower Canada

Died

11 October 1882 , L'Isle-Verte, Québec, Canada

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Joseph-Maxime FAUCHER Marie-Thecle DROUIN

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Jean-Baptiste FAUCHER was born 12 June 1795 in Sainte-Famille-de-l'île-d'Orléans, Lower Canada

Jean-Baptiste FAUCHER was the child of Joseph-Maxime FAUCHER and Marie-Thecle DROUIN

and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jacques FOUCHER and Therese MENEU dite CHATEAUNEUF (maternal) Etienne DROUIN and Thecle GUYON (DION)

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Jean-Baptiste married Marie-Perpetue ROY dite DESJARDINS 20 July 1824 in Kamouraska, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Perpetue ROY dite DESJARDINS was born 30 September 1803 in Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre). Marie-Perpetue died 14 April 1842 in Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre). Marie-Perpetue was the child of Ignace ROY dit DESJARDINS and Catherine PARADIS.

Jean-Baptiste FAUCHER died 11 October 1882 in L'Isle-Verte, Québec, Canada .
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Recorded occupation: forgeron

A forgeron, or blacksmith, was primarily a craftsman of wrought iron on the anvil. Protecting himself with a thick leather apron, he used a bellows (first made of leather, then wood and finally metal) to push the air that fuelled the coal fire of the forge, a type of cast iron table where the iron was reddened... Using pliers of various sizes to hold the hot iron, the blacksmith would then give it a specific shape with the help of different hammers. The blacksmith made farm instruments, vehicle accessories and even schooners, cemetery crosses, steel bandages, hooks for hay bales, etc.
Source: tfcq.ca

Source: Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts

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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.
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Jean-Baptiste FAUCHER married

Marie-Perpetue ROY dite DESJARDINS
Marriage date: 20 July 1824
Marriage place: Kamouraska, Lower Canada
Marie-Perpetue ROY dite DESJARDINS was the child of Ignace ROY dit DESJARDINS and Catherine PARADIS

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Children of Jean-Baptiste FAUCHER and Marie-Perpetue ROY dite DESJARDINS

Pierre FAUCHER

Born: 28 June 1828, Kamouraska, Lower Canada
Died: ,

Married: Philomene SIROIS 2 February 1857 Place: L'Isle-Verte, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-l'Isle-Verte)

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1795 Birth
12 June 1795
Sainte-Famille-de-l'île-d'Orléans, Lower Canada

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

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)

1824 Marriage / Partner
Jean-Baptiste FAUCHER and Marie-Perpetue ROY dite DESJARDINS 20 July 1824, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre)

He was 29 years old.

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 Birth of Child
Pierre FAUCHER was born 28 June 1828, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre)

Jean-Baptiste was 33 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 Death of Spouse/Partner
Marie-Perpetue ROY dite DESJARDINS died 14 April 1842, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre)

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.

1857 Marriage of Child
Pierre FAUCHER married 2 February 1857, L'Isle-Verte, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-l'Isle-Verte) to Philomene SIROIS

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.