Josephte BROCHU

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15 February 1819 , Saint-Gervais, Bellechasse, Lower Canada

Died

24 May 1893 , Saint-Gervais, Bellechasse, Québec, Canada

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André BROCHU Marie-Josephte GAGNON

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Born: 15 February 1819 in Saint-Gervais, Bellechasse, Lower Canada

Father: André BROCHU

Mother: Marie-Josephte GAGNON

Paternal grandparents: Pierre-Philippe BROCHU , Geneviève ROY

Maternal grandparents: Basile GAGNON , Marguerite CHARTIER

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Josephte married Francois-Xavier LEMIEUX 5 February 1839 in Saint-Gervais, Bellechasse, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Francois-Xavier LEMIEUX was born abt. 1816 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Francois-Xavier died 1 December 1896 in Saint-Gervais, Bellechasse, Québec, Canada (Saints-Gervais-et-Protais). Francois-Xavier was the child of Joseph LEMIEUX and Marie-Anne FRADET.

Josephte BROCHU died 24 May 1893 in Saint-Gervais, Bellechasse, Québec, Canada .
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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.

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Josephte BROCHU married

Francois-Xavier LEMIEUX
Marriage date: 5 February 1839
Marriage place: Saint-Gervais, Bellechasse, Lower Canada
Francois-Xavier LEMIEUX was the child of Joseph LEMIEUX and Marie-Anne FRADET

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Amable LEMIEUX

Born: abt. 1844, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 13 November 1881, Lauzon, Lévis, Québec, Canada

Married: Helene Odile FOURNIER 27 August 1866 Place: Montmagny, Québec, Canada (Saint-Thomas) (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire)

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Birth — 1819
15 February 1819
Saint-Gervais, Bellechasse, Lower Canada

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

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)

1839 Marriage / Partner
Josephte BROCHU and Francois-Xavier LEMIEUX 5 February 1839, Saint-Gervais, Bellechasse, Québec, Canada (Saints-Gervais-et-Protais)

She was 19 years old.

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)

1866 Marriage of Child
Amable LEMIEUX married 27 August 1866, Montmagny, Québec, Canada (Saint-Thomas) (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire) to Helene Odile FOURNIER

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.

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)

1881 Death of Child
Amable LEMIEUX died 13 November 1881, Lauzon, Lévis, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-de-Lévy)

Josephte was 62 years old.

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)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada

Death — 1893
24 May 1893
Saint-Gervais, Bellechasse, Québec, Canada
She died at the age of 74.

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