Abraham GAUTHIER

Born

10 May 1819 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Died

6 December 1879 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada

Abraham married Calixte SIMARD 8 October 1844 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Calixte SIMARD was born 5 December 1823 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada . Calixte died 6 September 1868 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada . Calixte was the child of Jerome SIMARD and Marie-Catherine GAUTHIER .

Parents & Family of Abraham GAUTHIER

Parents of Abraham GAUTHIER

Father

Jean GAUTHIER dit LAROUCHE

Mother

Adelaide OTIS

Grandparents of Abraham GAUTHIER

Paternal grandparents

Gaspard GAUTHIER dit LAROUCHE Jeanne BETTEZ

Maternal grandparents

Jean OTIS dit LANGLAIS Thérèse-Cecile GRENON

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Abraham GAUTHIER

Abraham GAUTHIER married

Calixte SIMARD
Marriage date: 8 October 1844
Marriage place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East
Calixte SIMARD was the child of Jerome SIMARD and Marie-Catherine GAUTHIER

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

Children of Abraham GAUTHIER and Calixte SIMARD

Anne GAUTHIER dite LAROUCHE

Born: 5 March 1864, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East
Died: ,

Married: Hermengilde TREMBLAY 17 July 1883 Place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada

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Québec Genealogy Notes

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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 — 1819
10 May 1819
Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

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)

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 Marriage / Partner
Abraham GAUTHIER and Calixte SIMARD 8 October 1844, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

He was 25 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)

1864 Birth of Child
Anne GAUTHIER dite LAROUCHE was born 5 March 1864, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Abraham was 44 years old.

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.

1868 Death of Spouse/Partner
Calixte SIMARD died 6 September 1868, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

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

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

Death — 1879
6 December 1879
Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada
He died at the age of 60.

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