Marie-Leda LARUE

Born

15 September 1824 , Québec, Lower Canada

Died

28 November 1902 , Québec, Québec, Canada

Marie-Leda married John-Henry-Ross BURROUGHS 6 August 1846 in Aubigny, Levis, Quebec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
John-Henry-Ross BURROUGHS was born September 1829 in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada . John-Henry-Ross died 14 August 1904 in Terrebonne, Québec, Canada . John-Henry-Ross was the child of Edward BURROUGHS and Catherine-Olivette VOYER .

Parents & Family of Marie-Leda LARUE

Parents of Marie-Leda LARUE

Father

Francois-Michel-Edouard LARUE

Mother

Adelaide LAUNIERE dite GAMELIN

Grandparents of Marie-Leda LARUE

Paternal grandparents

Francois-Xavier LARUE Marie-Luce HAINS

Maternal grandparents

Michel LAUNIERE dit GAMELIN Marie-Josephe BRASSARD dite DESCHENEAUX

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Marie-Leda LARUE

Marie-Leda LARUE married

John-Henry-Ross BURROUGHS
Marriage date: 6 August 1846
Marriage place: Aubigny, Levis, Quebec, Canada
John-Henry-Ross BURROUGHS was the child of Edward BURROUGHS and Catherine-Olivette VOYER

Marriage notes:

Church of England

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

Children of John-Henry-Ross BURROUGHS and Marie-Leda LARUE

Marie-Louise-Alice BURROUGHS

Born: 22 December 1862, Québec, Canada East
Died: 14 September 1923, Québec, Québec, Canada

Married: Elzéar PELLETIER 30 October 1888 Place: Québec, Québec, Canada

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Québec Genealogy Notes

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Québec Place Names Through History

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

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Birth — 1824
15 September 1824
Québec, Lower Canada

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)

1846 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Leda LARUE and John-Henry-Ross BURROUGHS 6 August 1846, Aubigny, Levis, Quebec, Canada

She was 21 years old.

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

1862 Birth of Child
Marie-Louise-Alice BURROUGHS was born 22 December 1862, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

Marie-Leda was 38 years old.

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.