Marguerite ROY

Born

30 October 1815 , L'Acadie, Lower Canada

Died

14 November 1883 , Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada

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Bonaventure ROY Marguerite TREMBLAY

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Born: 30 October 1815 in L'Acadie, Lower Canada

Father: Bonaventure ROY

Mother: Marguerite TREMBLAY

Paternal grandparents: Jacques ROY , Marie-Elisabeth MAURICE dite LAFANTASIE

Maternal grandparents: Joseph-Godefroy TREMBLAY , Marie-Marguerite BAILLARGEON

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Marguerite married Vital FOUCRAULT (FOURCRAULT) 3 November 1835 in Napierville, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Vital FOUCRAULT (FOURCRAULT) was born 19 July 1815 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité). Vital died 19 July 1887 in L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie). Vital was the child of Gabriel FOUCRAULT and Marie-Josephe GALARNEAU.

Marguerite ROY died 14 November 1883 in Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, 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.

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Vital FOUCRAULT (FOURCRAULT)
Marriage date: 3 November 1835
Marriage place: Napierville, Lower Canada
Vital FOUCRAULT (FOURCRAULT) was the child of Gabriel FOUCRAULT and Marie-Josephe GALARNEAU

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Children of Vital FOUCRAULT (FOURCRAULT) and Marguerite ROY

Oliva FOUCRAULT (FOURCRAULT)

Born: 4 June 1849, Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Canada East
Died: 26 December 1905, Napierville, Québec, Canada

Married: Simon TREMBLAY 8 April 1872 Place: Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1815
30 October 1815
L'Acadie, 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 - 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

1835 Marriage / Partner
Marguerite ROY and Vital FOUCRAULT (FOURCRAULT) 3 November 1835, Napierville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Cyprien) (Saint-Édouard)

She was 20 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)

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

1849 Birth of Child
Oliva FOUCRAULT (FOURCRAULT) was born 4 June 1849, Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada

Marguerite was 33 years old.

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.