Prime FRADET (PRADET dit ST-GELAIS)

(b. 26 October 1825 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada d. 22 January 1905 , Alma, Québec, Canada )

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Prime FRADET (PRADET dit ST-GELAIS) was born 26 October 1825 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Prime FRADET (PRADET dit ST-GELAIS) was the child of Jean-Baptiste ST-GELAIS dit BRADETTE and Marie-Anne GAGNON and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptitse BRADETTE dit ST-GELAIS and Marie-Anne GIRARD (maternal) Marie-Joseph GAGNON and Scholastique TREMBLAY

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

Prime married Eulalie GIRARD 31 August 1852 in Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Eulalie GIRARD was born 9 January 1831 in Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada. Eulalie died 20 December 1915 in Alma, Québec, Canada (St-Joseph-d'Alma) (Riverbend). Eulalie was the child of Hippolyte GIRARD and Virginie COTE.

Prime FRADET (PRADET dit ST-GELAIS) died 22 January 1905 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 Prime FRADET (PRADET dit ST-GELAIS)

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Prime FRADET (PRADET dit ST-GELAIS) married

Eulalie GIRARD-- Date: 31 August 1852 Place: Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Canada East

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Eulalie GIRARD was the child of Hippolyte GIRARD and Virginie COTE

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Children of Prime FRADET (PRADET dit ST-GELAIS) and Eulalie GIRARD:

Apolline FRADET (b.29 September 1855, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Canada East d. 20 August 1945, Alma, Québec, Canada )
m. Louis TREMBLAY 26 August 1873 in Laterrière, Québec, Canada
m. Alfred TREMBLAY 21 November 1904 in Alma, Québec, Canada (St-Joseph-d'Alma) (Riverbend)

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1825 Birth
26 October 1825
Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

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)

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1852 Marriage / Partner
Prime FRADET (PRADET dit ST-GELAIS) and Eulalie GIRARD 31 August 1852, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada

He was 26 years old.

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1855 Birth of Child
Apolline FRADET was born 29 September 1855, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada

Prime was 29 years old.

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.