Joseph THOMAS dit TRANCHEMONTAGNE

Born

3 April 1846 , Montebello, Canada East

Died

5 February 1891 , Montebello, Québec, Canada

Joseph married Odile CARRIERE 7 October 1861 in Montebello, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Odile CARRIERE was born abt. 1845 in Québec Province, Canada. Odile died 11 July 1911

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Joseph THOMAS dit TRANCHEMONTAGNE married

Odile CARRIERE
Marriage date: 7 October 1861
Marriage place: Montebello, Canada East

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

Children of Joseph THOMAS dit TRANCHEMONTAGNE and Odile CARRIERE

Napoleon-Paul THOMAS

Born: 14 October 1871, Montebello, Québec, Canada
Died: 4 December 1936, Sarnia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada

Married: Catherine Lea DUPONT 19 July 1892

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Québec Genealogy Notes

Helpful background for understanding names and places that may appear in Joseph's Québec records.

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

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

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." Colonists of Nouvelle France used dit names as distinguishers. A settler might use one to differentiate a branch of the family from siblings, sometimes choosing a name connected with the place to which the family had relocated.

A dit name could also result from a casual adoption or from honoring the family that had raised someone. In other cases it identified the town or village in France from which the person originated. The custom ended around 1900, when people increasingly used only one name, either the dit nickname or the original surname.

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

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Birth — 1846
3 April 1846
Montebello, Canada East

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

1861 Marriage / Partner
Joseph THOMAS dit TRANCHEMONTAGNE and Odile CARRIERE 7 October 1861, Montebello, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours)

He was 15 years old.

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.

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.

1871 Birth of Child
Napoleon-Paul THOMAS was born 14 October 1871, Montebello, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours)

Joseph was 25 years old.

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)

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)