Mathilde POTVIN

Born

17 November 1806 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Died

30 March 1897 , Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada

Parents & Family of Mathilde POTVIN

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Born: 17 November 1806 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Parents of Mathilde POTVIN

Father

Jean-Marie POITEVIN dit POTVIN

Mother

Agnes BOUCHARD

Grandparents of Mathilde POTVIN

Paternal grandparents

Prisque-Pierre POITEVIN (POTVIN) Marie-Luce SIMARD

Maternal grandparents

Pierre BOUCHARD Silvie GRENON

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

Mathilde married Jean-Baptiste TREMBLAY 23 August 1825 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 8 children.
Jean-Baptiste TREMBLAY was born 5 December 1803 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada . Jean-Baptiste died 6 June 1875 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada . Jean-Baptiste was the child of Benoni TREMBLAY and Ursule TREMBLAY.

Mathilde POTVIN died 30 March 1897 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada .
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Spouses, Marriages & Children of Mathilde POTVIN

Mathilde POTVIN married

Jean-Baptiste TREMBLAY
Marriage date: 23 August 1825
Marriage place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

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Jean-Baptiste TREMBLAY was the child of Benoni TREMBLAY and Ursule TREMBLAY

Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec

Children of Jean-Baptiste TREMBLAY and Mathilde POTVIN

Louise TREMBLAY

Born: 2 September 1827, Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada
Died: 12 July 1848, Les Éboulements, Canada East

Married: Gaspard TREMBLAY 10 January 1843 Place: Les Éboulements, Canada East

Jean-Magloire TREMBLAY

Born: 31 July 1832, Les Éboulements, Lower Canada
Died: 16 April 1906, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada

Married: Adele TREMBLAY 17 July 1854 Place: Les Éboulements, Canada East

Married: Marie BERGERON 14 February 1876 Place: Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada

Celanire TREMBLAY

Born: abt. 1835, Les Éboulements, Lower Canada
Died: 3 January 1869, Grande-Rivière, Canada

Elzear TREMBLAY

Born: 18 September 1836, Les Éboulements, Lower Canada
Died: 29 April 1898, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada

Married: Marie TREMBLAY 31 August 1864 Place: Les Éboulements, Canada East

Charles TREMBLAY

Born: 30 August 1841, Les Éboulements, Canada East
Died: ,

Married: Louise BOUCHARD 25 November 1867 Place: Les Éboulements, Canada East

Francois-Xavier TREMBLAY

Born: 9 March 1843, Les Éboulements, Canada East
Died: ,

Married: Malvina SAVARD 24 February 1873 Place: Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada

Antoine-Adolphe TREMBLAY

Born: 22 July 1848, Les Éboulements, Canada East
Died: ,

Married: Adele FORGUES 8 February 1875 Place: La Malbaie, Québec, Canada

Antonia TREMBLAY

Born: 18 September 1854, Les Éboulements, Canada East
Died: ,

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Québec Genealogy Notes

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Québec Place Names Through History

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Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1806
17 November 1806
Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

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 Marriage / Partner
Mathilde POTVIN and Jean-Baptiste TREMBLAY 23 August 1825, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

She was 18 years old.

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1827 Birth of Child
Louise TREMBLAY was born 2 September 1827, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Mathilde was 20 years old.

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1832 Birth of Child
Jean-Magloire TREMBLAY was born 31 July 1832, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Mathilde was 25 years old.

1836 - July 21 - Opening of the first railway in Canada from La Prairie to St. Jean, Quebec

1836 Birth of Child
Elzear TREMBLAY was born 18 September 1836, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Mathilde was 29 years old.

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

1841 Birth of Child
Charles TREMBLAY was born 30 August 1841, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Mathilde was 34 years old.

1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1843 Marriage of Child
Louise TREMBLAY married 10 January 1843, Les Éboulements, Canada East to Gaspard TREMBLAY

1843 Birth of Child
Francois-Xavier TREMBLAY was born 9 March 1843, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Mathilde was 36 years old.

1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1848 Death of Child
Louise TREMBLAY died 12 July 1848, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Mathilde was 41 years old.

1848 Birth of Child
Antoine-Adolphe TREMBLAY was born 22 July 1848, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Mathilde was 41 years old.

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
Jean-Magloire TREMBLAY married 17 July 1854, Les Éboulements, Canada East to Adele TREMBLAY

1854 Birth of Child
Antonia TREMBLAY was born 18 September 1854, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Mathilde was 47 years old.

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)

1864 Marriage of Child
Elzear TREMBLAY married 31 August 1864, Les Éboulements, Canada East to Marie TREMBLAY

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

1867 Marriage of Child
Charles TREMBLAY married 25 November 1867, Les Éboulements, Canada East to Louise BOUCHARD

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1869 Death of Child
Celanire TREMBLAY died 3 January 1869, Grande-Rivière, Canada

Mathilde was 62 years old.

1873 Marriage of Child
Francois-Xavier TREMBLAY married 24 February 1873, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada to Malvina SAVARD

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

1875 Marriage of Child
Antoine-Adolphe TREMBLAY married 8 February 1875, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada to Adele FORGUES

1875 Death of Spouse/Partner
Jean-Baptiste TREMBLAY died 6 June 1875, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

1876 Marriage of Child
Jean-Magloire TREMBLAY married 14 February 1876, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada to Marie BERGERON

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

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada