Jean-Baptiste MIVILLE dit DESCHÊNES

(b. 15 November 1798 , Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada d. 25 July 1871 , Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada )

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Jean-Baptiste MIVILLE dit DESCHÊNES was born 15 November 1798 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada

Jean-Baptiste MIVILLE dit DESCHÊNES was the child of Jean-Juste MIVILLE and Theotiste CHOUINARD and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptiste MIVILLE dit DESCHÊNES and Marie-Barbe CHOUINARD (maternal) Joseph CHOUINARD and Angélique AUBERT

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

Jean-Baptiste married Anastasie FORTIN 24 October 1820 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 3 children.
Anastasie FORTIN was born 15 March 1799 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Canada. Anastasie died 30 May 1881 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Anastasie was the child of Amable FORTIN and Judith CAOUETTE.

Jean-Baptiste MIVILLE dit DESCHÊNES died 25 July 1871 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada .
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Occupation

Jean-Baptiste MIVILLE dit DESCHÊNES was a Cultivateur.
The farmer, cultivateur, or cultivator, was a person who cultivated and exploited the land in order to get a crop.

He may have been the proprietor of his own parcel(s) of land. He could, depending on the land size, have employed other agricultural workers. If he didn't own the land, he was called a tenant farmer.
Source: tfcq.ca

farmer

Source: Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts

Life as a Cultivateur in 18th Century New France: Tilling the Soil of History

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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

Québec Généalogie - What is a 'dit/dite' name? When the first settlers came to Québec from France it was a custom to add a 'dit' nickname to the surname. The English translation of 'dit' is 'said'. The Colonists of Nouvelle France added 'dit' names as distinguishers. A settler might have wanted to differentiate their family from their siblings by taking a 'dit' name that described the locale to which they had relocated. The acquiring of a 'dit' name might also be the result of a casual adoption, whereby the person wanted to honor the family who had raised them. Another reason was also to distinguish themselves by taking as a 'dit' name the town or village in France from which they originated. This custom ended around 1900 when people began using only one name, either the 'dit' nickname or their original surname.

Source: American-French Genealogical Society, Woonsocket, Rhode Island (www.afgs.org/ditnames/index1.html)

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Jean-Baptiste MIVILLE dit DESCHÊNES married

Anastasie FORTIN-- Date: 24 October 1820 Place: Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada
Anastasie FORTIN was the child of Amable FORTIN and Judith CAOUETTE

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Children of Jean-Baptiste MIVILLE dit DESCHÊNES and Anastasie FORTIN:

Anastasie MIVILLE (b.20 February 1823, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada d. , )
m. Florent GAGNE 9 January 1854 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Theophile MIVILLE (b.1 July 1829, Saint-Henri, Lower Canada d. , )
m. Adele GIRARD 7 January 1852 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Scholastique MIVILLE dite DESCHÊNES (b.abt. 1830, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )
m. Elie TREMBLAY 24 March 1851 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)
m. Hermel-Samuel TREMBLAY 15 January 1855 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

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1798 Birth
15 November 1798
Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, 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 Marriage / Partner
Jean-Baptiste MIVILLE dit DESCHÊNES and Anastasie FORTIN 24 October 1820, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Canada

He was 21 years old.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1823 Birth of Child
Anastasie MIVILLE was born 20 February 1823, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Canada

Jean-Baptiste was 24 years old.

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)

1829 Birth of Child
Theophile MIVILLE was born 1 July 1829, Saint-Henri, Québec, Canada (Saint-Henri-de-Lauzon)

Jean-Baptiste was 30 years old.

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)

1851 Marriage of Child
Scholastique MIVILLE dite DESCHÊNES married 24 March 1851, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements) to Elie TREMBLAY

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1852 Marriage of Child
Theophile MIVILLE married 7 January 1852, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements) to Adele GIRARD

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1854 Marriage of Child
Anastasie MIVILLE married 9 January 1854, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements) to Florent GAGNE

1855 Marriage of Child
Scholastique MIVILLE dite DESCHÊNES married 15 January 1855, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements) to Hermel-Samuel TREMBLAY

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.