Gabriel AUDET dit LAPOINTE

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abt. 1731 , Québec Province, Canada

Died

19 November 1890 , Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada

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Pierre AUDET dit LAPOINTE Marie LABRECQUE

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Born: abt. 1731 in Québec Province, Canada

Father: Pierre AUDET dit LAPOINTE

Mother: Marie LABRECQUE

Paternal grandparents: Pierre AUDET dit LAPOINTE , Marie DUMAS

Maternal grandparents: Pierre LABRECQUE , Marie-Marthe COULOMBE

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Gabriel married Josephte GOBEIL 21 January 1765 in Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Province of Québec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Josephte GOBEIL was born 11 May 1737 in Saint-Jean-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean). Josephte was the child of Barthelemy GOBEIL and Marguerite THIVIERGE.

Gabriel AUDET dit LAPOINTE died 19 November 1890 in Saint-Ours, Québec, 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.

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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Gabriel AUDET dit LAPOINTE married

Josephte GOBEIL
Marriage date: 21 January 1765
Marriage place: Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Province of Québec, Canada
Josephte GOBEIL was the child of Barthelemy GOBEIL and Marguerite THIVIERGE

Children of Gabriel AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Josephte GOBEIL

Marie-Josephte AUDET dite LAPOINTE

Born: abt. 1765, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 14 September 1833, Contrecœur, Lower Canada

Married: Joseph-Paul CHICOINE dit DOZOIS 28 January 1788 Place: Verchères, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-Vercheres)

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1753 - The lightning rod is invented (Benjamin Franklin, United States)

1763 - France cedes its North American posessions to Britain by the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years War (French and Indian War). Quebec City French-speaking Catholics were now under the rule of Protestant Britain under King George III.

1765 Marriage / Partner
Gabriel AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Josephte GOBEIL 21 January 1765, Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Québec, Canada

1775 - The Battle of Québec was fought on December 31 between the American Continental Army and British defenders of Québec City. It was the first major defeat for the Americans in the Revolutionary War.

1784 - The bifocal lens is invented (Benjamin Franklin, United States)

The oil lamp is invented (Aimé Argand, Switzerland)

1788 Marriage of Child
Marie-Josephte AUDET dite LAPOINTE married 28 January 1788, Verchères, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-Vercheres) to Joseph-Paul CHICOINE dit DOZOIS

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

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

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 - 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

1833 Death of Child
Marie-Josephte AUDET dite LAPOINTE died 14 September 1833, Contrecœur, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Trinité-de-Contrecoeur)

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

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.