Jean-Baptiste MARTINEAU

Born

22 October 1807 , Joliette, Lower Canada

Died

10 September 1892 , St-Thomas de Joliette, Québec, Canada

Parents & Family of Jean-Baptiste MARTINEAU

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Born: 22 October 1807 in Joliette, Lower Canada

Parents of Jean-Baptiste MARTINEAU

Father

Jean-Baptiste MARTINEAU

Mother

Marguerite DEZIEL dite LABRECHE

Grandparents of Jean-Baptiste MARTINEAU

Paternal grandparents

Claude MARTINEAU Angelique ARCHAMBAULT

Maternal grandparents

Joseph DEZIEL dit LABRECHE Therese GOGUET (GOYETTE)

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Jean-Baptiste married Esther GILBERT dite COMTOIS 30 June 1828 in Ste-Elisabeth de Joliette, Quebec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Esther GILBERT dite COMTOIS was born 22 April 1811 in Saint-Cuthbert, Lower Canada. Esther died 17 June 1894 in St-Thomas de Joliette, Québec, Canada. Esther was the child of Joseph COMTOIS dit GILBERT and Elisabeth MEYER dite CHRISTIANE.

Jean-Baptiste MARTINEAU died 10 September 1892 in St-Thomas de Joliette, Québec, Canada.
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WORK & OCCUPATION

Occupation

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

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Jean-Baptiste MARTINEAU

Jean-Baptiste MARTINEAU married

Esther GILBERT dite COMTOIS
Marriage date: 30 June 1828
Marriage place: Ste-Elisabeth de Joliette, Quebec, Canada
Esther GILBERT dite COMTOIS was the child of Joseph COMTOIS dit GILBERT and Elisabeth MEYER dite CHRISTIANE

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

Children of Jean-Baptiste MARTINEAU and Esther GILBERT dite COMTOIS

Adeline MARTINEAU

Born: abt. 1838, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 10 June 1886,

Married: Francois LAPLANTE 15 February 1858

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Québec Genealogy Notes

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Québec Place Names Through History

Québec has been described by several names during different periods of its history. Knowing the period name can make older records easier to recognize.

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 — 1807
22 October 1807
Joliette, 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

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 Marriage / Partner
Jean-Baptiste MARTINEAU and Esther GILBERT dite COMTOIS 30 June 1828, Ste-Elisabeth de Joliette, Quebec, Canada

He was 20 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)

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.