Jean-Baptiste BOUCHER dit DESROSIERS

Born

8 August 1778 , Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Province of Québec, Canada

Died

20 August 1859 , Saint-Ours, Canada East

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Jean-Francois BOUCHER Charlotte DUBOIS dite LAFRANCE

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Born: 8 August 1778 in Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Province of Québec, Canada

Father: Jean-Francois BOUCHER

Mother: Charlotte DUBOIS dite LAFRANCE

Paternal grandparents: Jean-François BOUCHER , Charlotte GARNIER (GRENIER)

Maternal grandparents: Charles DUBOIS , Marie-Françoise HOUDE

Jean-Baptiste BOUCHER dit DESROSIERS died 20 August 1859 in Saint-Ours, Canada East .
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Recorded occupation: Cultivateur

The farmer, cultivateur, or cultivator, was a person who cultivated and exploited the land in order to get a crop.

He may have been the proprietor of his own parcel(s) of land. He could, depending on the land size, have employed other agricultural workers. If he didn't own the land, he was called a tenant farmer.
Source: tfcq.ca

farmer

Source: Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts

Life as a Cultivateur in 18th Century New France: Tilling the Soil of History

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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