Alexandrine RATTÉ (RATE)

Born

16 September 1819 , La Malbaie, Lower Canada

Died

21 February 1895 , Saint-Louis-de-Métabetchouan, Quebec, Canada

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Thomas RATTÉ (RATE)Julienne-Madeleine COUTURIER

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Alexandrine RATTÉ (RATE) was born 16 September 1819 in La Malbaie, Lower Canada

Alexandrine RATTÉ (RATE) was the child of Thomas RATTÉ (RATE) and Julienne-Madeleine COUTURIER

and the grandchild of: (paternal) Basile RATTÉ (RATE) and Marie-Anne SIMARD (maternal) Jean COUTURIER and Rose TREMBLAY

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Alexandrine married Joseph GRAVEL 27 May 1839 in Sainte-Agnès, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Joseph GRAVEL was born 1 July 1815 in La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic). Joseph died 5 March 1886 in Laterrière, Québec, Canada. Joseph was the child of Joseph GRAVEL and Marie-Luce MCNICOLL.

Alexandrine RATTÉ (RATE) died 21 February 1895 in Saint-Louis-de-Métabetchouan, 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.

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Alexandrine RATTÉ (RATE) married

Joseph GRAVEL-- Date: 27 May 1839 Place: Sainte-Agnès, Lower Canada

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Joseph GRAVEL was the child of Joseph GRAVEL and Marie-Luce MCNICOLL

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Children of Joseph GRAVEL and Alexandrine RATTÉ (RATE)

Marie-Louise GRAVEL (b.9 October 1844, Sainte-Agnès, Canada East d. , )
m. Alexandre TREMBLAY 6 February 1877 in Laterrière, Québec, Canada
m. Jean TREMBLAY 16 May 1889 in Laterrière, Québec, Canada

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1819 Birth
16 September 1819
La Malbaie, Lower Canada

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
Alexandrine RATTÉ (RATE) and Joseph GRAVEL 27 May 1839, Sainte-Agnès, Québec, Canada (Ste-Agnes-de-Charlevoix)

She was 19 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)

1844 Birth of Child
Marie-Louise GRAVEL was born 9 October 1844, Sainte-Agnès, Québec, Canada (Ste-Agnes-de-Charlevoix)

Alexandrine was 25 years old.

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.