Geneviève HOUDE

(b. 4 September 1792 , Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada d. 22 November 1870 , St-Medard, Warwick, Canada )

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Geneviève HOUDE was born 4 September 1792 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada

Geneviève HOUDE was the child of Alexis-Clair HOUDE and Marie-Angélique CHEVREFILS dite BELISLE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Claude HOUDE and Marie-Marguerite TROTTIER (maternal) Jean-Joseph CHEVREFILS dit BELISLE and Élisabeth BENOIT dite LAFOREST

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

Geneviève married Vincent PLOURDE 1 August 1814 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 9 children. Vincent PLOURDE was born 2 February 1789 in Rivière-Ouelle, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Liesse). Vincent died 14 June 1870 in St-Medard, Warwick, Canada. Vincent was the child of Louis-Vincent PLOURDE and Victoire BOIS.

Geneviève HOUDE died 22 November 1870 in St-Medard, Warwick, Canada.
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From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
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Spouse(s) / Partner(s) and Child(ren) of Geneviève HOUDE

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Geneviève HOUDE married

Vincent PLOURDE-- Date: 1 August 1814 Place: Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada
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Vincent PLOURDE was the child of Louis-Vincent PLOURDE and Victoire BOIS

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Children of Vincent PLOURDE and Geneviève HOUDE:

Scholastique PLOURDE (b.25 April 1815, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada d. abt. 1862, )
m. Henri DIONNE 1 August 1836 in Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

Louis-Vincent PLOURDE (b.31 July 1818, Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada d. , )

Alexis PLOURDE (b.27 May 1820, Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada d. 26 February 1825, Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada)

Michel PLOURDE (b.23 February 1822, Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada d. 8 February 1877, Tingwick, Quebec, Canada)
m. Marguerite VINCENT 26 November 1844

Sophie PLOURDE (b.10 January 1824, Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada d. 25 February 1898, Kingsey Falls, Canada)
m. Chrysostome ROUX dit SANSCHAGRIN 24 February 1868

Augustin PLOURDE (b.abt. 1826, , Québec Province, Canada d. 15 August 1889, St-Medard, Warwick, Canada)

Marie-Anne PLOURDE (b.26 January 1828, Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada d. 5 July 1828, Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada)

Eloise Eliza "Adelaide" PLOURDE (b.abt. 1832, Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada d. 9 August 1914, Biddeford, Maine, USA )

Gilbert (Guilbert) PLOURDE (b.21 July 1835, Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada d. 7 August 1835, Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada)

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1792 Birth
4 September 1792
Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Baptism
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1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1814 Marriage / Partner
Geneviève HOUDE and Vincent PLOURDE 1 August 1814, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

She was 21 years old.

1814 marriage
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1815 Birth of Child
Scholastique PLOURDE was born 25 April 1815, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Geneviève was 22 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.

1818 Birth of Child
Louis-Vincent PLOURDE was born 31 July 1818, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

Geneviève was 25 years old.

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1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1820 Birth of Child
Alexis PLOURDE was born 27 May 1820, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

Geneviève was 27 years old.

1822 Birth of Child
Michel PLOURDE was born 23 February 1822, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

Geneviève was 29 years old.

1824 - Portland cement is invented (Joseph Aspdin, England)

1824 Birth of Child
Sophie PLOURDE was born 10 January 1824, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

Geneviève was 31 years old.

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

1825 Death of Child
Alexis PLOURDE died 26 February 1825, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

Geneviève was 32 years old.

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1828 Birth of Child
Marie-Anne PLOURDE was born 26 January 1828, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

Geneviève was 35 years old.

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1835 Birth of Child
Gilbert (Guilbert) PLOURDE was born 21 July 1835, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

Geneviève was 42 years old.

1836 - July 21 - Opening of the first railway in Canada from La Prairie to St. Jean, Quebec

1836 Marriage of Child
Scholastique PLOURDE married 1 August 1836, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada to Henri DIONNE

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.