Joseph FOUGERE

Born

22 January 1818 , Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada

Died

7 March 1888 , St-Pierre-de-Broughton, Quebec, Canada

Joseph married Esther MARCOUX 9 January 1844 in Sainte-Marie, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Esther MARCOUX was born 11 August 1821 in Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada . Esther died 17 April 1907 in Thetford Mines, Québec, Canada . Esther was the child of Pierre MARCOUX and Marie-Louise BOUCHER .

Parents & Family of Joseph FOUGERE

Parents of Joseph FOUGERE

Father

Joseph FOUGERE

Mother

Madeleine RHEAUME

Grandparents of Joseph FOUGERE

Paternal grandparents

Jacques FOUGERE Josephte CAUCHON

Maternal grandparents

Simon RHEAUME Marie GRAVEL

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Joseph FOUGERE

Joseph FOUGERE married

Esther MARCOUX
Marriage date: 9 January 1844
Marriage place: Sainte-Marie, Canada East
Esther MARCOUX was the child of Pierre MARCOUX and Marie-Louise BOUCHER

Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec

Children of Joseph FOUGERE and Esther MARCOUX

Marie FOUGERE

Born: abt. 1854, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 18 November 1920, Laconia, New Hampshire, USA

Married: Pierre TREMBLAY 10 February 1874

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Québec Genealogy Notes

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Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1818
22 January 1818
Sainte-Marie, 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)

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 Marriage / Partner
Joseph FOUGERE and Esther MARCOUX 9 January 1844, Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce)

He 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.