Felicite CATTEMAN

(b. 20 June 1791 , La Prairie, Lower Canada d. 5 July 1872 , Québec Province, Canada )

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Felicite CATTEMAN was born 20 June 1791 in La Prairie, Lower Canada

Felicite CATTEMAN was the child of Johannes-Konrad GERDMANN (CATTEMAN) and Felicite LONGTIN and the grandchild of: (maternal) Augustin LONGTIN and Marie-Catherine LAMARQUE

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Felicite married Pierre MENARD 25 February 1811 in La Prairie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Pierre MENARD was born 23 April 1789 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité). Pierre died 28 December 1878 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Pierre was the child of François MENARD dit BELLEROSE and Marie-Anne VAUTRIN.

Felicite CATTEMAN died 5 July 1872 in Québec Province, Canada.
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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.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

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Felicite CATTEMAN married

Pierre MENARD-- Date: 25 February 1811 Place: La Prairie, Lower Canada
Pierre MENARD was the child of François MENARD dit BELLEROSE and Marie-Anne VAUTRIN

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Children of Pierre MENARD and Felicite CATTEMAN:

Firmin MENARD (b.abt. 1834, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )
m. Marie ARCOUET 18 July 1854 in Napierville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Cyprien) (Saint-Édouard)

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1791 Birth
20 June 1791
La Prairie, Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

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

1811 Marriage / Partner
Felicite CATTEMAN and Pierre MENARD 25 February 1811, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

She was 19 years old.

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

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.

1854 Marriage of Child
Firmin MENARD married 18 July 1854, Napierville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Cyprien) (Saint-Édouard) to Marie ARCOUET

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.