Ferdinand GAUTHIER dit LAROUCHE

(b. 11 February 1816 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada d. 25 April 1900 , Alma, Québec, Canada )

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Ferdinand GAUTHIER dit LAROUCHE was born 11 February 1816 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Ferdinand GAUTHIER dit LAROUCHE was the child of Michel GAUTHIER dit LAROUCHE and Marie TREMBLAY and the grandchild of: (paternal) Louis GAUTHIER dit LAROUCHE and Dorothee BOUCHARD (maternal) Jacques-Vincent-Athanase TREMBLAY and Catherine LABRANCHE dite LAFOREST

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

Ferdinand married Julienne COTE 5 February 1839 in Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Julienne COTE was born 1 September 1819 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Julienne died 2 April 1900 in Alma, Québec, Canada (St-Joseph-d'Alma) (Riverbend). Julienne was the child of Louis-Urbain COTE and Felicite TREMBLAY.

Ferdinand GAUTHIER dit LAROUCHE died 25 April 1900 in Alma, 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 Ferdinand GAUTHIER dit LAROUCHE

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Ferdinand GAUTHIER dit LAROUCHE married

Julienne COTE-- Date: 5 February 1839 Place: Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Lower Canada
Julienne COTE was the child of Louis-Urbain COTE and Felicite TREMBLAY

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Children of Ferdinand GAUTHIER dit LAROUCHE and Julienne COTE:

Hortense GAUTHIER dite LAROUCHE (b.24 October 1844, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Canada East d. 16 January 1882, Alma, Québec, Canada )
m. Neree TREMBLAY 4 October 1875 in Laterrière, Québec, Canada

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1816 Birth
11 February 1816
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 - 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)

1839 Marriage / Partner
Ferdinand GAUTHIER dit LAROUCHE and Julienne COTE 5 February 1839, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada

He was 23 years old.

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)

1844 Birth of Child
Hortense GAUTHIER dite LAROUCHE was born 24 October 1844, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada

Ferdinand was 28 years old.

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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

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

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

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

1875 Marriage of Child
Hortense GAUTHIER dite LAROUCHE married 4 October 1875, Laterrière, Québec, Canada to Neree TREMBLAY

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)

1882 Death of Child
Hortense GAUTHIER dite LAROUCHE died 16 January 1882, Alma, Québec, Canada (St-Joseph-d'Alma) (Riverbend)

Ferdinand was 65 years old.

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

1894 - December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - May 1 - Charles Tupper becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - July 11 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1897 - Aspirin is invented (Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), Germany)

1900 Death
25 April 1900
Alma, Québec, Canada

He died at the age of 84.