Louis MAHEU

Born

16 December 1819 , Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Lower Canada

Died

4 June 1894 , Hull, Québec, Canada

Louis married Adelaide DEMERS 14 July 1840 in Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Adelaide DEMERS was born October 1813 in Sainte-Geneviève, Lower Canada . Adelaide died 25 October 1900 in Hull, Québec, Canada . Adelaide was the child of Eustache DEMERS and Marie-Elisabeth FRESNAY .

Parents & Family of Louis MAHEU

Parents of Louis MAHEU

Father

Louis MAHEU

Mother

Angelique-Amable PERRIER

Grandparents of Louis MAHEU

Paternal grandparents

Louis MAHEUX Marie-Magdeleine RASTOUL (RASTOUT)

Maternal grandparents

Andre-Amable PERRIER Marie-Josephte ABRAHAM dite COURVILLE

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Louis MAHEU

Louis MAHEU married

Adelaide DEMERS
Marriage date: 14 July 1840
Marriage place: Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Lower Canada
Adelaide DEMERS was the child of Eustache DEMERS and Marie-Elisabeth FRESNAY

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

Children of Louis MAHEU and Adelaide DEMERS

Marie Sophie Adelaide MAHEU

Born: 17 July 1853, Carillon, Quebec, Canada
Died: 4 August 1927, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Married: Etienne BOURGUIGNON 26 May 1873

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Québec Genealogy Notes

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Québec Place Names Through History

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Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1819
16 December 1819
Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, 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)

1840 Marriage / Partner
Louis MAHEU and Adelaide DEMERS 14 July 1840, Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Québec, Canada

He was 20 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.

1853 Birth of Child
Marie Sophie Adelaide MAHEU was born 17 July 1853, Carillon, Quebec, Canada

Louis was 33 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.