Godefroy PLEAU

Born

28 March 1798 , Donnacona, Lower Canada

Died

14 September 1874 , Neuville, Portneuf, Québec, Canada

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Jean-Baptiste PLEAU Rosalie-Angelique GODIN

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Born: 28 March 1798 in Donnacona, Lower Canada

Father: Jean-Baptiste PLEAU

Mother: Rosalie-Angelique GODIN

Paternal grandparents: Louis-Joseph PLEAU , Marie-Madeleine LEFEBVRE

Maternal grandparents: Charles GODIN , Marie-Angelique TREPANIER

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

Godefroy married Marie-Louise PAGE 23 January 1825 in Donnacona, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Louise PAGE was born 4 April 1802 in Donnacona, Lower Canada . Marie-Louise was the child of Jean-Baptiste PAGE and Charlotte PAPILLON.

Godefroy PLEAU died 14 September 1874 in Neuville, Portneuf, Québec, Canada .
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Recorded occupation: Cultivateur

The farmer, cultivateur, or cultivator, was a person who cultivated and exploited the land in order to get a crop.

He may have been the proprietor of his own parcel(s) of land. He could, depending on the land size, have employed other agricultural workers. If he didn't own the land, he was called a tenant farmer.
Source: tfcq.ca

farmer

Source: Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts

Life as a Cultivateur in 18th Century New France: Tilling the Soil of History

Spouse & Children of Godefroy PLEAU

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Godefroy PLEAU married

Marie-Louise PAGE
Marriage date: 23 January 1825
Marriage place: Donnacona, Lower Canada
Marie-Louise PAGE was the child of Jean-Baptiste PAGE and Charlotte PAPILLON

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

Children of Godefroy PLEAU and Marie-Louise PAGE

Phebee PLEAU

Born: abt. 1811, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Camille TREMBLAY 9 November 1847 Place: Québec, Canada East

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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 — 1798
28 March 1798
Donnacona, 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 Marriage / Partner
Godefroy PLEAU and Marie-Louise PAGE 23 January 1825, Donnacona, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-des-Écureuils) (Les Ecureuils)

He was 26 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)

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)

1847 Marriage of Child
Phebee PLEAU married 9 November 1847, Québec, Canada East to Camille TREMBLAY

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.