Jean-Marie PEPIN dit LACHANCE

Born

19 November 1782 , Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Province of Québec, Canada

Died

11 December 1868 , St-Ferréol-Les-Neiges, Quebec, Canada

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Jean-Marie-Baptiste PEPIN dit LACHANCE Marie-Charlotte BLOUIN

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Born: 19 November 1782 in Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Province of Québec, Canada

Father: Jean-Marie-Baptiste PEPIN dit LACHANCE

Mother: Marie-Charlotte BLOUIN

Paternal grandparents: Jean-Marie PEPIN dit LACHANCE , Marie-Madeleine PARÉ

Maternal grandparents: Augustin BLOUIN , Marie-Helene MEUNIER

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Jean-Marie married Felicite-Amable GIGUERE 15 February 1803 in Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Felicite-Amable GIGUERE was born 7 August 1782 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Felicite-Amable died 6 May 1855 in St-Ferréol-Les-Neiges, Quebec, Canada. Felicite-Amable was the child of Joseph GIGUERE and Marie-Monique FILION.

Jean-Marie PEPIN dit LACHANCE died 11 December 1868 in St-Ferréol-Les-Neiges, Quebec, Canada.
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Recorded occupation: Agriculteur

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.

Québec Généalogie - What is a 'dit/dite' name? When the first settlers came to Québec from France it was a custom to add a 'dit' nickname to the surname. The English translation of 'dit' is 'said'. The Colonists of Nouvelle France added 'dit' names as distinguishers. A settler might have wanted to differentiate their family from their siblings by taking a 'dit' name that described the locale to which they had relocated. The acquiring of a 'dit' name might also be the result of a casual adoption, whereby the person wanted to honor the family who had raised them. Another reason was also to distinguish themselves by taking as a 'dit' name the town or village in France from which they originated. This custom ended around 1900 when people began using only one name, either the 'dit' nickname or their original surname.

Source: American-French Genealogical Society, Woonsocket, Rhode Island (www.afgs.org/ditnames/index1.html)

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Jean-Marie PEPIN dit LACHANCE married

Felicite-Amable GIGUERE
Marriage date: 15 February 1803
Marriage place: Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Lower Canada
Felicite-Amable GIGUERE was the child of Joseph GIGUERE and Marie-Monique FILION

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Children of Jean-Marie PEPIN dit LACHANCE and Felicite-Amable GIGUERE

Julie PEPIN dite LACHANCE

Born: 7 April 1822, St-Ferréol-Les-Neiges, Quebec, Canada
Died: 20 January 1903, Alma, Québec, Canada

Married: Francois Xavier PARE 8 November 1853

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Birth — 1782
19 November 1782
Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Province of Québec, Canada

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)

1803 Marriage / Partner
Jean-Marie PEPIN dit LACHANCE and Felicite-Amable GIGUERE 15 February 1803, Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Québec, Canada (Beaupre)

He was 20 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

1822 Birth of Child
Julie PEPIN dite LACHANCE was born 7 April 1822, St-Ferréol-Les-Neiges, Quebec, Canada

Jean-Marie was 39 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)

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)

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.

1855 Death of Spouse/Partner
Felicite-Amable GIGUERE died 6 May 1855, St-Ferréol-Les-Neiges, Quebec, Canada

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.