Flore HOUDE dite DESRUISSEAUX

Born

19 January 1817 , Sainte-Croix, Lotbinière, Lower Canada

Died

21 August 1874 , Sainte-Croix, Lotbinière, Québec, Canada

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Francois HOUDE dit DESRUISSEAUX Francoise GARNEAU

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Born: 19 January 1817 in Sainte-Croix, Lotbinière, Lower Canada

Father: Francois HOUDE dit DESRUISSEAUX

Mother: Francoise GARNEAU

Paternal grandparents: François HOUDE , Marie-Josephe ROGNON dite LAROCHE

Maternal grandparents: Prisque GARNEAU , Geneviève LARUE

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Flore married Louis BOISVERT 20 August 1839 in Sainte-Croix, Lotbinière, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Louis BOISVERT was born 16 October 1816 in Saint-Janvier-de-Blainville, Mirabel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Janvier-de-Lacroix). Louis died 2 September 1884 in Sainte-Croix, Lotbinière, Québec, Canada. Louis was the child of Louis BOISVERT and Marie PIERRE.

Flore HOUDE dite DESRUISSEAUX died 21 August 1874 in Sainte-Croix, Lotbinière, 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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Flore HOUDE dite DESRUISSEAUX married

Louis BOISVERT
Marriage date: 20 August 1839
Marriage place: Sainte-Croix, Lotbinière, Lower Canada

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Louis BOISVERT was the child of Louis BOISVERT and Marie PIERRE

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Children of Louis BOISVERT and Flore HOUDE dite DESRUISSEAUX

Eleucippe BOISVERT

Born: abt. 1846, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Marie-Obeline PILET dite JOLICOEUR 11 October 1870 Place: Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce)

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Birth — 1817
19 January 1817
Sainte-Croix, Lotbinière, Lower Canada

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)

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)

1839 Marriage / Partner
Flore HOUDE dite DESRUISSEAUX and Louis BOISVERT 20 August 1839, Sainte-Croix, Lotbinière, Québec, Canada

She was 22 years old.

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.

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.

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.

1870 Marriage of Child
Eleucippe BOISVERT married 11 October 1870, Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce) to Marie-Obeline PILET dite JOLICOEUR

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