Joseph BOURBEAU dit CARIGNAN

Born

19 November 1801 , Bécancour, Nicolet, Lower Canada

Died

23 May 1871 , Québec Province, Canada

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Joseph CARIGNAN dit BOURBEAU Marie-Madeleine LACOURSE dite DAVID

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Born: 19 November 1801 in Bécancour, Nicolet, Lower Canada

Father: Joseph CARIGNAN dit BOURBEAU

Mother: Marie-Madeleine LACOURSE dite DAVID

Paternal grandparents: François BOURBEAU dit CARIGNAN , Marie-Louise GENEST dite LABARRE

Maternal grandparents: Gabriel DAVID dit LACOURSE , Josephte-Ursule DESHAIES dite TOURIGNY

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Joseph married Marie-Reine DESROSIERS dite DARGIS 20 February 1827 in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Reine DESROSIERS dite DARGIS was born 9 May 1807 in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers). Marie-Reine died 29 December 1860 in Plessisville, Québec, Canada (Somerset). Marie-Reine was the child of Pierre DARGIS dit DESROSIERS and Reine-Marie BOURQ.

Joseph BOURBEAU dit CARIGNAN died 23 May 1871 in Québec Province, 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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Joseph BOURBEAU dit CARIGNAN married

Marie-Reine DESROSIERS dite DARGIS
Marriage date: 20 February 1827
Marriage place: Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada
Marie-Reine DESROSIERS dite DARGIS was the child of Pierre DARGIS dit DESROSIERS and Reine-Marie BOURQ

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Children of Joseph BOURBEAU dit CARIGNAN and Marie-Reine DESROSIERS dite DARGIS

Eleonore CARIGNAN

Born: 13 September 1836, Bécancour, Nicolet, Lower Canada
Died: 22 January 1899, Plessisville, Québec, Canada

Married: Joseph PROVENCHER 23 May 1853 Place: Plessisville, Québec, Canada (Somerset)

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Birth — 1801
19 November 1801
Bécancour, Nicolet, 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)

1827 Marriage / Partner
Joseph BOURBEAU dit CARIGNAN and Marie-Reine DESROSIERS dite DARGIS 20 February 1827, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

He was 25 years old.

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

1836 Birth of Child
Eleonore CARIGNAN was born 13 September 1836, Bécancour, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Nativité-de-Notre-Dame-de-Becancour) (Saint-Edouard-de-Gentilly)

Joseph was 34 years old.

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)

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

1853 Marriage of Child
Eleonore CARIGNAN married 23 May 1853, Plessisville, Québec, Canada (Somerset) to Joseph PROVENCHER

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

1860 Death of Spouse/Partner
Marie-Reine DESROSIERS dite DARGIS died 29 December 1860, Plessisville, Québec, Canada (Somerset)

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.