Jean-Baptiste MALENFANT

Born

11 January 1822 , Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada

Died

26 June 1886 , Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, Canada

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Jean-Baptiste MALENFANT Athalie DESTROISMAISONS dite PICARD

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Born: 11 January 1822 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada

Father: Jean-Baptiste MALENFANT

Mother: Athalie DESTROISMAISONS dite PICARD

Paternal grandparents: Guillaume-Pierre MALENFANT , Marie-Josephte LEVESQUE

Maternal grandparents: Laurent DESTROISMAISONS dit PICARD , Genevieve BACON

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Jean-Baptiste married Genevieve KIROUAC 16 January 1844 in L'Islet, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Genevieve KIROUAC was born 20 November 1823 in L'Islet, Québec, Canada (L'Islet-sur-Mer) (Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours). Genevieve died 11 February 1892 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City). Genevieve was the child of Simon-Alexandre KIROUAC and Genevieve LORD.

Jean-Baptiste MALENFANT died 26 June 1886 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, Canada.
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Recorded occupation: cultivateur, chauffeur

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 Jean-Baptiste MALENFANT

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Jean-Baptiste MALENFANT married

Genevieve KIROUAC
Marriage date: 16 January 1844
Marriage place: L'Islet, Canada East

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Genevieve KIROUAC was the child of Simon-Alexandre KIROUAC and Genevieve LORD

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Children of Jean-Baptiste MALENFANT and Genevieve KIROUAC

Clarisse-Alice MALENFANT

Born: 14 January 1848, Québec, Canada East
Died: 2 October 1929, Québec, Québec, Canada

Married: Sauveur (Samuel) TREMBLAY 1 August 1894 Place: Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

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Birth — 1822
11 January 1822
Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada

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
Jean-Baptiste MALENFANT and Genevieve KIROUAC 16 January 1844, L'Islet, Québec, Canada (L'Islet-sur-Mer) (Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours)

He was 22 years old.

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

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1848 Birth of Child
Clarisse-Alice MALENFANT was born 14 January 1848, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

Jean-Baptiste was 26 years old.

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.