Francois LEFANTE dit BRABANT

(b. 16 January 1781 , Saint-Polycarpe, Province of Québec, Canada d. 4 April 1881 , Vaudreuil, Québec, Canada )

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Francois LEFANTE dit BRABANT was born 16 January 1781 in Saint-Polycarpe, Province of Québec, Canada

Francois LEFANTE dit BRABANT was the child of Francois BRABANT and Madeleine PREGENT (PREJEAN) and the grandchild of: (paternal) Augustin-Francois BRABANT dit LAMOTHE and Marie LALONDE (maternal) Louis PREGENT and Angelique GRENIER

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

Francois married Marie-Catherine RANGER 17 May 1813 in Vaudreuil, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Catherine RANGER was born 2 July 1795 in Vaudreuil, Québec, Canada (Vaudreuil-Dorion). Marie-Catherine died 8 December 1863 in Wolfe Island, Ontario, Canada. Marie-Catherine was the child of Augustin RANGER and Marie-Catherine GAUTHIER.

Francois LEFANTE dit BRABANT died 4 April 1881 in Vaudreuil, 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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Family and Children of Francois LEFANTE dit BRABANT

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Francois LEFANTE dit BRABANT married

Marie-Catherine RANGER-- Date: 17 May 1813 Place: Vaudreuil, Lower Canada
Marie-Catherine RANGER was the child of Augustin RANGER and Marie-Catherine GAUTHIER

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Children of Francois LEFANTE dit BRABANT and Marie-Catherine RANGER:

Sophie Josephie BRABANT (b.abt. 1818, , Canada d. 16 January 1852, St-Raphael, Canada West)
m. Leon-Baptiste TREMBLAY 30 July 1839

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1781 Birth
16 January 1781
Saint-Polycarpe, Province of Québec, Canada

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

The oil lamp is invented (Aimé Argand, Switzerland)

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)

1813 Marriage / Partner
Francois LEFANTE dit BRABANT and Marie-Catherine RANGER 17 May 1813, Vaudreuil, Québec, Canada (Vaudreuil-Dorion)

He was 32 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.

1852 Death of Child
Sophie Josephie BRABANT died 16 January 1852, St-Raphael, Ontario, Canada

Francois was 71 years old.

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

1863 Death of Spouse/Partner
Marie-Catherine RANGER died 8 December 1863, Wolfe Island, Ontario, Canada

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.