Esther Marie MAURICE dite LAFANTAISIE

Born

21 August 1813 , Prescott, Upper Canada

Died

9 December 1882 , Russell, Prescott and Russell, Ontario, Canada

Esther Marie married Jean-Baptiste BRIERE 3 August 1841 in Saint-Jérôme, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Jean-Baptiste BRIERE was born abt. 1820 in Québec Province, Canada. Jean-Baptiste died 20 December 1890 in Russell, Prescott and Russell, Ontario, Canada.

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Esther Marie MAURICE dite LAFANTAISIE married

Jean-Baptiste BRIERE
Marriage date: 3 August 1841
Marriage place: Saint-Jérôme, Canada East

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Children of Jean-Baptiste BRIERE and Esther Marie MAURICE dite LAFANTAISIE

Pierre BRIERE

Born: 2 May 1844, Saint-Jérôme, Canada East
Died: abt. 1929, Tupper Lake, New York, USA

Married: Veronique Annie LAROCHE 1870

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Québec Genealogy Notes

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

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 — 1813
21 August 1813
Prescott, Upper 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 Marriage / Partner
Esther Marie MAURICE dite LAFANTAISIE and Jean-Baptiste BRIERE 3 August 1841, Saint-Jérôme, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jerome)

She was 27 years old.

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)

1844 Birth of Child
Pierre BRIERE was born 2 May 1844, Saint-Jérôme, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jerome)

Esther Marie was 30 years old.

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.