John (Jean Baptiste) ARSENEAU

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27 October 1838 , Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

Died

11 March 1877 , Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

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Jean Baptiste ARSENAULT (ARCENAULT) (ARSENEAU)Marie BULGER

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Born: 27 October 1838 in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

Father: Jean Baptiste ARSENAULT (ARCENAULT) (ARSENEAU)

Mother: Marie BULGER

Paternal grandparents: Jean Baptiste ARSENAULT , Geneviève SAULNIER

Maternal grandparents: Patrick BULGER (BOLGER) , Louise Ludivine DUGUAY

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John (Jean Baptiste) married Sarah (Saraphile) Flore THOMAS 27 May 1868 in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada . The couple had (at least) 4 children.
Sarah (Saraphile) Flore THOMAS was born 8 August 1840 in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila). Sarah (Saraphile) Flore died 7 May 1913 in Saint-Isidore, New Brunswick, Canada. Sarah (Saraphile) Flore was the child of Guillaume Jonas THOMAS and Adelaide COMEAU.

John (Jean Baptiste) ARSENEAU died 11 March 1877 in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada .

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John (Jean Baptiste) ARSENEAU married

Sarah (Saraphile) Flore THOMAS
Marriage date: 27 May 1868
Marriage place: Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada
Sarah (Saraphile) Flore THOMAS was the child of Guillaume Jonas THOMAS and Adelaide COMEAU

Children of John (Jean Baptiste) ARSENEAU and Sarah (Saraphile) Flore THOMAS

Ferdinand ARSENEAU

Born: 2 February 1870, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: 2 October 1929, Saint-Isidore, New Brunswick, Canada

Philippe ARSENEAU

Born: 19 February 1870, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: 6 January 1948, Saint-Isidore, New Brunswick, Canada

Patrice ARSENAULT

Born: 6 April 1873, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: abt. 1949, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

Marie Adelaide ARSENEAU

Born: 30 April 1875, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: ,

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Birth — 1838
27 October 1838
Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

Baptism

Ancestry® Acadia, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1670-1946
Acadian Church Records 1679-1757
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

1839 - February 24 - Steam shovel patented by William Smith Otis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

Baptism
18 August 1839 • parish of Saint-Jean-Baptiste and Saint-Joseph Roman Catholic Church, Tracadie, New Brunswick
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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.

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.

1868 Marriage / Partner
John (Jean Baptiste) ARSENEAU and Sarah (Saraphile) Flore THOMAS 27 May 1868, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

He was 29 years old.

John (Jean Baptiste) ARSENEAU - 1868 marriage

1868 marriage

Ancestry® Acadia, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1670-1946
Acadian Church Records 1679-1757
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

1870 Birth of Child
Ferdinand ARSENEAU was born 2 February 1870, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

John (Jean Baptiste) was 31 years old.

1870 Birth of Child
Philippe ARSENEAU was born 19 February 1870, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

John (Jean Baptiste) was 31 years old.

1873 Birth of Child
Patrice ARSENAULT was born 6 April 1873, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

John (Jean Baptiste) was 34 years old.

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1875 Birth of Child
Marie Adelaide ARSENEAU was born 30 April 1875, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

John (Jean Baptiste) was 36 years old.

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