Marie-Felicite GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE
Married: Georges HUS LEMOINE 3 June 1823 Place: Sorel, Lower Canada
Thomas
GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE
Born
7 April 1777
,
Sorel, Province of Québec, Canada
Died
11 February 1869
,
Sorel, Québec, Canada
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Thomas GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE married Marie ALLARD
Marriage date: 1 August 1803
Marriage place: Sorel, Lower Canada
Marie ALLARD was the child of Pierre ALLARD and Félicité COMEAU
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Marie ALLARDMarriage date: 1 August 1803
Marriage place: Sorel, Lower Canada
Marie ALLARD was the child of Pierre ALLARD and Félicité COMEAU
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St-Pierre
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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
Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.
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 — 17777 April 1777
Sorel, Province of Québec, Canada
1784 - The bifocal lens is invented (Benjamin Franklin, United States)The oil lamp is invented (Aimé Argand, Switzerland)
1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada
1803 Marriage / PartnerThomas GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE and Marie ALLARD 1 August 1803, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)
He was 26 years old.
1805 Birth of ChildMarie-Felicite GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE was born 7 May 1805, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)
Thomas was 28 years old.
1813 Birth of ChildDominique GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE was born 13 January 1813, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)
Thomas was 35 years old.
1817 Birth of ChildTimothee GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE was born 20 June 1817, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)
Thomas was 40 years old.
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 England1823 Marriage of ChildMarie-Felicite GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE married 3 June 1823, Sorel, Lower Canada to Georges HUS LEMOINE
1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England1833 Marriage of ChildDominique GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE married 2 July 1833, Sorel, Lower Canada to Emelie COURNOYER
1837 - June 20 - Victoria becomes Queen of England1841 - 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)
1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.1857 - Ottawa chosen by Queen Victoria as the capital of the united colony of Canada.
1857 Death of Spouse/PartnerMarie ALLARD died 8 October 1857, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)
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.
Death — 186911 February 1869
Sorel, Québec, Canada
He died at the age of 91.
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