Theotiste DESROCHERS dite HOUDE

Born

5 October 1795 , Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Lower Canada

Died

4 November 1882 , St-Romuald-d'Etchemin, Lévis, Quebec, Canada

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Joseph HOUDE dit DESROCHERS Veronique HOUDE

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Born: 5 October 1795 in Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Lower Canada

Father: Joseph HOUDE dit DESROCHERS

Mother: Veronique HOUDE

Paternal grandparents: Augustin HOUDE dit DESROCHERS , Marguerite HUARD

Maternal grandparents: Joseph HOUDE , Veronique LAROCHE

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Theotiste married Joseph-Ange FORCADE 1 September 1818 in Sainte-Croix, Lotbinière, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Joseph-Ange FORCADE was born 13 April 1794 in Varennes, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-Varennes). Joseph-Ange died 1 January 1864 in St-Romuald, Lévis, Quebec, Canada. Joseph-Ange was the child of Jean Baptiste FORCADE DE RITTBERG and Francoise DUPERRON.

Theotiste DESROCHERS dite HOUDE died 4 November 1882 in St-Romuald-d'Etchemin, Lévis, Quebec, 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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Theotiste DESROCHERS dite HOUDE married

Joseph-Ange FORCADE
Marriage date: 1 September 1818
Marriage place: Sainte-Croix, Lotbinière, Lower Canada

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Joseph-Ange FORCADE was the child of Jean Baptiste FORCADE DE RITTBERG and Francoise DUPERRON

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Children of Joseph-Ange FORCADE and Theotiste DESROCHERS dite HOUDE

Jacob-Louis FORCADE

Born: 23 December 1821, Sainte-Croix, Lotbinière, Lower Canada
Died: 14 June 1879, La Baie, Québec, Canada

Married: Eleonore GAUDREAU 20 January 1846 Place: La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

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Birth — 1795
5 October 1795
Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Lower Canada

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

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.

1818 Marriage / Partner
Theotiste DESROCHERS dite HOUDE and Joseph-Ange FORCADE 1 September 1818, Sainte-Croix, Lotbinière, Québec, Canada

She was 22 years old.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1821 Birth of Child
Jacob-Louis FORCADE was born 23 December 1821, Sainte-Croix, Lotbinière, Québec, Canada

Theotiste was 26 years old.

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)

1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1846 Marriage of Child
Jacob-Louis FORCADE married 20 January 1846, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori) to Eleonore GAUDREAU

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 Death of Spouse/Partner
Joseph-Ange FORCADE died 1 January 1864, St-Romuald, Lévis, Quebec, Canada

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.

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

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1879 Death of Child
Jacob-Louis FORCADE died 14 June 1879, La Baie, Québec, Canada (Grande-Baie) (Bagotville) (Port-Alfred) (Saint-Alexis) (Ha Ha Bay) (St-Alphonse-de-Liguori)

Theotiste was 83 years old.

Death — 1882
4 November 1882
St-Romuald-d'Etchemin, Lévis, Quebec, Canada
She died at the age of 87.

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