Chrystophe HUS dit CAPISTRAN

(b. 15 June 1817 , Sorel, Lower Canada d. 10 February 1887 , Penetanguishene, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada )

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Chrystophe HUS dit CAPISTRAN was born 15 June 1817 in Sorel, Lower Canada

Chrystophe HUS dit CAPISTRAN was the child of Emmanuel LEMOINE dit CAPISTRAN and Marie-Genevieve NEPVEAU

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

Chrystophe married Catherine COUTU 31 December 1849 in St-Thomas, Joliette, Quebec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Catherine COUTU was born 6 December 1824 in Sainte-Elizabeth, D'Autray, Québec, Canada. Catherine was the child of Louis COUTU and Marie-Josephe DAGENAIS.

Chrystophe HUS dit CAPISTRAN died 10 February 1887 in Penetanguishene, Simcoe, Ontario, 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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

Québec Généalogie - 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'. The Colonists of Nouvelle France added 'dit' names as distinguishers. A settler might have wanted to differentiate their family from their siblings by taking a 'dit' name that described the locale to which they had relocated. The acquiring of a 'dit' name might also be the result of a casual adoption, whereby the person wanted to honor the family who had raised them. Another reason was also to distinguish themselves by taking as a 'dit' name the town or village in France from which they originated. This custom ended around 1900 when people began using only one name, either the 'dit' nickname or their original surname.

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

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Family and Children of Chrystophe HUS dit CAPISTRAN

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Chrystophe HUS dit CAPISTRAN married

Catherine COUTU-- Date: 31 December 1849 Place: St-Thomas, Joliette, Quebec, Canada
Catherine COUTU was the child of Louis COUTU and Marie-Josephe DAGENAIS

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Children of Chrystophe HUS dit CAPISTRAN and Catherine COUTU:

Nérée CAPISTRAN (b.29 January 1853, St-Thomas, Joliette, Quebec, Canada d. , )
m. Josephine-Rose ROBILLARD 14 May 1872 in Joliette, Québec, Canada (Industry Village) (Saint-Charles-Borromée) (Saint-Paul-de-Lavaltrie)

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1817 Birth
15 June 1817
Sorel, Lower Canada

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

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)

1849 Marriage / Partner
Chrystophe HUS dit CAPISTRAN and Catherine COUTU 31 December 1849, St-Thomas, Joliette, Quebec, Canada

He was 32 years old.

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1853 Birth of Child
Nérée CAPISTRAN was born 29 January 1853, St-Thomas, Joliette, Quebec, Canada

Chrystophe was 35 years old.

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.

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.

1872 Marriage of Child
Nérée CAPISTRAN married 14 May 1872, Joliette, Québec, Canada (Industry Village) (Saint-Charles-Borromée) (Saint-Paul-de-Lavaltrie) to Josephine-Rose ROBILLARD

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)