Jean-Baptiste MCMURRAY

Born

3 December 1815 , L'Assomption, Lower Canada

Died

9 December 1895 , St-Alexis des Monts, Maskinongé, Québec, Canada

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Jean Baptiste MCMURRAY Françoise SIMARD

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Born: 3 December 1815 in L'Assomption, Lower Canada

Father: Jean Baptiste MCMURRAY

Mother: Françoise SIMARD

Maternal grandparents: Basile SIMARD , Francoise BOLDUC

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Jean-Baptiste married Marie-Helene HENRICHON 3 October 1842 in L'Assomption, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Helene HENRICHON was born 18 August 1820 in Saint-Martin, Laval, Québec, Canada. Marie-Helene died 12 November 1894 in St-Alexis des Monts, Maskinongé, Québec, Canada. Marie-Helene was the child of Ignace HENRICHON dit JARRY and Marie CYR.

Jean-Baptiste MCMURRAY died 9 December 1895 in St-Alexis des Monts, Maskinongé, Québec, Canada.
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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

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 MCMURRAY

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Jean-Baptiste MCMURRAY married

Marie-Helene HENRICHON
Marriage date: 3 October 1842
Marriage place: L'Assomption, Canada East
Marie-Helene HENRICHON was the child of Ignace HENRICHON dit JARRY and Marie CYR

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Children of Jean-Baptiste MCMURRAY and Marie-Helene HENRICHON

Charles MCMURRAY

Born: 1 June 1855, St-Félix-de-Valois, Canada East
Died: 11 June 1917, Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, Canada

Married: Amanda LACOURSIERE 15 October 1878

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Birth — 1815
3 December 1815
L'Assomption, 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)

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

1842 Marriage / Partner
Jean-Baptiste MCMURRAY and Marie-Helene HENRICHON 3 October 1842, L'Assomption, Québec, Canada (St-Pierre-du-Portage)

He was 26 years old.

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 Birth of Child
Charles MCMURRAY was born 1 June 1855, St-Félix-de-Valois, Québec, Canada

Jean-Baptiste was 39 years old.

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.