Brigitte FINN

Born

10 January 1813 , Pokemouche, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada

Died

26 December 1893 , Shippagan, New Brunswick, Canada

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Michel FINN Marie SAULNIER

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Born: 10 January 1813 in Pokemouche, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada

Father: Michel FINN

Mother: Marie SAULNIER

Maternal grandparents: Joseph SAULNIER , Félicité BASTARACHE dite BASQUE

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Brigitte married Louis David ROBICHAUD 27 August 1832 in Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Louis David ROBICHAUD was born 15 June 1809 in Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada. Louis David died 13 November 1879 in Shippagan, New Brunswick, Canada . Louis David was the child of Louis David ROBICHAUD and Marie Rebecca SAVOIE.

Brigitte FINN died 26 December 1893 in Shippagan, New Brunswick, Canada .

m. 27 August 1832, Louis David Robichaud in Caraquet, NB

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Brigitte FINN married

Louis David ROBICHAUD
Marriage date: 27 August 1832
Marriage place: Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada
Louis David ROBICHAUD was the child of Louis David ROBICHAUD and Marie Rebecca SAVOIE

Children of Louis David ROBICHAUD and Brigitte FINN

Olivier ROBICHAUD

Born: 22 June 1833, Shippagan, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Cesarine SAVOIE 17 November 1860 Place: Shippagan, New Brunswick, Canada

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Birth — 1813
10 January 1813
Pokemouche, Gloucester, 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

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

1832 Marriage / Partner
Brigitte FINN and Louis David ROBICHAUD 27 August 1832, Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada

She was 19 years old.

1832 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

1833 Birth of Child
Olivier ROBICHAUD was born 22 June 1833, Shippagan, New Brunswick, Canada

Brigitte was 20 years old.

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)

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

1860 Marriage of Child
Olivier ROBICHAUD married 17 November 1860, Shippagan, New Brunswick, Canada to Cesarine SAVOIE

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.