Joseph LAFONTAINE dit LARIOUX

Born

5 June 1787 , St-Stanislas, Champlain, Province of Québec, Canada

Died

2 June 1841 , St-Stanislas, Champlain, Canada East

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Toussaint LAFONTAINE Francoise AYOTTE

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Born: 5 June 1787 in St-Stanislas, Champlain, Province of Québec, Canada

Father: Toussaint LAFONTAINE

Mother: Francoise AYOTTE

Paternal grandparents: Joseph LARIOU dit LAFONTAINE , Ursule ADAM

Maternal grandparents: Joseph HAYOT (AYOTTE) , Catherine BARIL

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

Joseph married Marie-Anne GENDRON 6 July 1812 in Batiscan, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Anne GENDRON was born 16 August 1792 in La-Pérade, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-la-Perade). Marie-Anne died 8 January 1831 in St-Stanislas-de-Champlain, Quebec, Canada. Marie-Anne was the child of Pierre-Louis GENDRON and Rosalie LANGLOIS.

Joseph LAFONTAINE dit LARIOUX died 2 June 1841 in St-Stanislas, Champlain, Canada East.
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WORK & OCCUPATION

Occupation

Recorded occupation: Cultivateur

The farmer, cultivateur, or cultivator, was a person who cultivated and exploited the land in order to get a crop.

He may have been the proprietor of his own parcel(s) of land. He could, depending on the land size, have employed other agricultural workers. If he didn't own the land, he was called a tenant farmer.
Source: tfcq.ca

farmer

Source: Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts

Life as a Cultivateur in 18th Century New France: Tilling the Soil of History

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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Spouse & Children of Joseph LAFONTAINE dit LARIOUX

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Joseph LAFONTAINE dit LARIOUX married

Marie-Anne GENDRON
Marriage date: 6 July 1812
Marriage place: Batiscan, Lower Canada

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Marie-Anne GENDRON was the child of Pierre-Louis GENDRON and Rosalie LANGLOIS

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Children of Joseph LAFONTAINE dit LARIOUX and Marie-Anne GENDRON

Marie LAFONTAINE

Born: 18 April 1819, St-Stanislas, Champlain, Lower Canada
Died: 12 October 1890, St-Stanislas, Champlain, Québec, Canada

Married: Paul ASSELIN 15 August 1843

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Birth — 1787
5 June 1787
St-Stanislas, Champlain, Province of Québec, Canada

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

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

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

1812 Marriage / Partner
Joseph LAFONTAINE dit LARIOUX and Marie-Anne GENDRON 6 July 1812, Batiscan, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan) (Saint-François-Xavier)

He was 25 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.

1819 Birth of Child
Marie LAFONTAINE was born 18 April 1819, St-Stanislas, Champlain, Québec, Canada

Joseph was 31 years old.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England