Marie-Josephte POUPART

Born

23 September 1791 , La Prairie, Lower Canada

Died

15 July 1873 , La Prairie, Québec, Canada

Parents & Family of Marie-Josephte POUPART

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Born: 23 September 1791 in La Prairie, Lower Canada

Parents of Marie-Josephte POUPART

Father

Joseph POUPART

Mother

Marie-Josephe MONET

Grandparents of Marie-Josephte POUPART

Paternal grandparents

Joseph POUPART Marie-Charlotte LAMARRE

Maternal grandparents

François MONET Josephte SURPRENANT

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

Marie-Josephte married Toussaint LEGRAND 8 January 1810 in La Prairie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Toussaint LEGRAND was born 24 November 1790 in La Prairie, Province of Québec, Canada . Toussaint died 6 December 1873 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada . Toussaint was the child of Jacques LEGRAND and Catherine LAMARRE.

Marie-Josephte POUPART died 15 July 1873 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada .
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Spouses, Marriages & Children of Marie-Josephte POUPART

Marie-Josephte POUPART married

Toussaint LEGRAND
Marriage date: 8 January 1810
Marriage place: La Prairie, Lower Canada
Toussaint LEGRAND was the child of Jacques LEGRAND and Catherine LAMARRE

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

Children of Toussaint LEGRAND and Marie-Josephte POUPART

Marie-Zoe LEGRAND

Born: 3 September 1829, La Prairie, Lower Canada
Died: 31 January 1891, La Prairie, Québec, Canada

Married: Edouard TREMBLAY 30 June 1846 Place: La Prairie, Canada East

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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 — 1791
23 September 1791
La Prairie, Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1810 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Josephte POUPART and Toussaint LEGRAND 8 January 1810, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

She was 18 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)

1829 Birth of Child
Marie-Zoe LEGRAND was born 3 September 1829, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

Marie-Josephte was 37 years old.

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)

1846 Marriage of Child
Marie-Zoe LEGRAND married 30 June 1846, La Prairie, Canada East to Edouard 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.