Antoinette DUCHESNE

Born

25 October 1801 , La Malbaie, Lower Canada

Died

12 March 1886 , La Malbaie, Québec, Canada

Antoinette married Joseph DASSYLVA dit PORTUGAIS 22 January 1822 in La Malbaie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Joseph DASSYLVA dit PORTUGAIS was born 4 October 1798 in La Malbaie, Lower Canada . Joseph died 23 April 1868 in La Malbaie, Québec, Canada . Joseph was the child of Jean-Baptiste DASSYLVA dit PORTUGAIS and Marguerite BERIAULT .

Parents & Family of Antoinette DUCHESNE

Parents of Antoinette DUCHESNE

Father

Rene-Abraham-Samson DUCHESNE

Mother

Felicite-Veronique DESBIENS

Grandparents of Antoinette DUCHESNE

Paternal grandparents

Jacques DUCHESNE dit LAPIERRE Marie-Anne THIBAULT

Maternal grandparents

Etienne DESBIENS Francoise TREMBLAY

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Antoinette DUCHESNE

Antoinette DUCHESNE married

Joseph DASSYLVA dit PORTUGAIS
Marriage date: 22 January 1822
Marriage place: La Malbaie, Lower Canada
Joseph DASSYLVA dit PORTUGAIS was the child of Jean-Baptiste DASSYLVA dit PORTUGAIS and Marguerite BERIAULT

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

Children of Joseph DASSYLVA dit PORTUGAIS and Antoinette DUCHESNE

Alphonse DASSYLVA

Born: 26 January 1828, La Malbaie, Lower Canada
Died: 10 February 1896, St-Fidele, Quebec, Canada

Married: Olive BOUCHARD 26 September 1848 Place: La Malbaie, Canada East

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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 — 1801
25 October 1801
La Malbaie, Lower Canada

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.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1822 Marriage / Partner
Antoinette DUCHESNE and Joseph DASSYLVA dit PORTUGAIS 22 January 1822, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

She was 20 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)

1828 Birth of Child
Alphonse DASSYLVA was born 26 January 1828, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

Antoinette was 26 years old.

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)

1848 Marriage of Child
Alphonse DASSYLVA married 26 September 1848, La Malbaie, Canada East to Olive BOUCHARD

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.

1868 Death of Spouse/Partner
Joseph DASSYLVA dit PORTUGAIS died 23 April 1868, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

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)

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

Death — 1886
12 March 1886
La Malbaie, Québec, Canada
She died at the age of 84.

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