Ambroise MARTINEAU

Born

10 August 1774 , Saint-Cuthbert, Province of Québec, Canada

Died

14 April 1870 , Montréal, Québec, Canada

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Étienne MARTINEAU dit LORMIÈRE Josephte-Geneviève DEMERS

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Born: 10 August 1774 in Saint-Cuthbert, Province of Québec, Canada

Father: Étienne MARTINEAU dit LORMIÈRE

Mother: Josephte-Geneviève DEMERS

Paternal grandparents: Joseph MARTINEAU dit LORMIÈRE , Marie-Anne BOUCHER dite DESROSIERS

Maternal grandparents: Joseph DEMERS (DUMAIS) , Josephte GINGRAS

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Ambroise married Judith CADOT 25 May 1805 in Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Judith CADOT was born 29 April 1783 in Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan). Judith died 29 December 1830 in Saint-Esprit, Montcalm, Québec, Canada. Judith was the child of Isidore CADOT and Marie-Veronique DUMONT.

Ambroise MARTINEAU died 14 April 1870 in Montréal, Québec, Canada .
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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.

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Spouse & Children of Ambroise MARTINEAU

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Ambroise MARTINEAU married

Judith CADOT
Marriage date: 25 May 1805
Marriage place: Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, Lower Canada
Judith CADOT was the child of Isidore CADOT and Marie-Veronique DUMONT

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Children of Ambroise MARTINEAU and Judith CADOT

Tharsile MARTINEAU

Born: abt. 1815, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Barnabe CUSSON 13 October 1840 Place: Saint-Esprit, Montcalm, Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1774
10 August 1774
Saint-Cuthbert, Province of Québec, Canada

1775 - The Battle of Québec was fought on December 31 between the American Continental Army and British defenders of Québec City. It was the first major defeat for the Americans in the Revolutionary War.

1784 - The bifocal lens is invented (Benjamin Franklin, United States)

The oil lamp is invented (Aimé Argand, Switzerland)

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)

1805 Marriage / Partner
Ambroise MARTINEAU and Judith CADOT 25 May 1805, Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, Québec, Canada

He was 30 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.

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

1830 Death of Spouse/Partner
Judith CADOT died 29 December 1830, Saint-Esprit, Montcalm, Québec, Canada

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

1840 Marriage of Child
Tharsile MARTINEAU married 13 October 1840, Saint-Esprit, Montcalm, Québec, Canada to Barnabe CUSSON

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)

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.