Edouard COURCY dit LEMIERE

Born

3 March 1801 , La Pocatière, Lower Canada

Died

25 September 1868 , Rimouski, Québec, Canada

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Jean-Benoit COURCY dit LEMIERE Therese PELLETIER

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Born: 3 March 1801 in La Pocatière, Lower Canada

Father: Jean-Benoit COURCY dit LEMIERE

Mother: Therese PELLETIER

Paternal grandparents: Nicolas LEMIERE dit COURCY , Louise-Geneviève DUBE

Maternal grandparents: Francois-Marie PELLETIER , Marie-Felicite CHRÉTIEN

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Edouard married Rosalie LACOMBE 20 February 1824 in La Pocatière, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Rosalie LACOMBE was born 3 October 1799 in Montmagny, Québec, Canada (Saint-Thomas) (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire). Rosalie died 16 March 1878 in Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic). Rosalie was the child of Jean-Baptiste LACOMBE dit BALAN and Genevieve LEBEL.

Edouard COURCY dit LEMIERE died 25 September 1868 in Rimouski, 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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Rosalie LACOMBE
Marriage date: 20 February 1824
Marriage place: La Pocatière, Lower Canada

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Rosalie LACOMBE was the child of Jean-Baptiste LACOMBE dit BALAN and Genevieve LEBEL

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Virginie COURCY

Born: abt. 1830, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Didyme TREMBLAY 25 November 1851 Place: Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Sara COURCY

Born: abt. 1835, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Hermenegilde TREMBLAY 18 October 1859 Place: Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic)

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Birth — 1801
3 March 1801
La Pocatière, 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)

1824 Marriage / Partner
Edouard COURCY dit LEMIERE and Rosalie LACOMBE 20 February 1824, La Pocatière, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere)

He was 22 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)

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

1851 Marriage of Child
Virginie COURCY married 25 November 1851, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements) to Didyme TREMBLAY

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

1859 Marriage of Child
Sara COURCY married 18 October 1859, Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic) to Hermenegilde TREMBLAY

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.