Jean AUDET dit LAPOINTE

Born

15 December 1797 , Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Died

18 June 1890 , Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada

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Barthelemy AUDET dit LAPOINTE Marie-Procule TREMBLAY

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Jean AUDET dit LAPOINTE was born 15 December 1797 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Jean AUDET dit LAPOINTE was the child of Barthelemy AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Marie-Procule TREMBLAY

and the grandchild of: (paternal) Barthelemy AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Madeleine TREMBLAY (maternal) Louis-Roch-Augustin TREMBLAY and Constance-Ursule-Dorothée SIMARD

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Jean married Agathe DESMEULES 30 January 1827 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Agathe DESMEULES was born 2 February 1813 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Agathe died 9 January 1897 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Agathe was the child of Jean-Marc DEMEULES (DESMEULES) and Euphrosine PERRON.

Jean AUDET dit LAPOINTE died 18 June 1890 in Les Éboulements, 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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Jean AUDET dit LAPOINTE married

Agathe DESMEULES-- Date: 30 January 1827 Place: Les Éboulements, Lower Canada
Agathe DESMEULES was the child of Jean-Marc DEMEULES (DESMEULES) and Euphrosine PERRON

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Children of Jean AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Agathe DESMEULES

Leocadie AUDET (b.1 August 1833, Les Éboulements, Lower Canada d. , )
m. Amable TREMBLAY 11 February 1850 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Marie AUDET (b.4 February 1845, Les Éboulements, Canada East d. 3 March 1892, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada )
m. Napoleon-Polemon TREMBLAY 13 January 1863 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

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1797 Birth
15 December 1797
Les Éboulements, 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 - 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)

1827 Marriage / Partner
Jean AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Agathe DESMEULES 30 January 1827, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

He was 29 years old.

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

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1833 Birth of Child
Leocadie AUDET was born 1 August 1833, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Jean was 35 years old.

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)

1845 Birth of Child
Marie AUDET was born 4 February 1845, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Jean was 47 years old.

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1850 Marriage of Child
Leocadie AUDET married 11 February 1850, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements) to Amable TREMBLAY

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

1863 Marriage of Child
Marie AUDET married 13 January 1863, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements) to Napoleon-Polemon TREMBLAY

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.