Marie-Anne LEROUX dite PROVENÇAL
Married: Maxime HUS COURNOYER 17 August 1847 Place: Sorel, Canada East
Louis
LEROUX dit PROVENÇAL
Born
26 October 1798
,
Sorel, Lower Canada
Died
9 November 1885
,
Saint-Robert, Québec, Canada
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Louis LEROUX dit PROVENÇAL married Marie-Anne BIBEAU
Marriage date: 6 February 1826
Marriage place: Sorel, Lower Canada
Marie-Anne BIBEAU was the child of Jean-Baptiste BIBEAU and Madeleine GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE
Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec
Marie-Anne BIBEAUMarriage date: 6 February 1826
Marriage place: Sorel, Lower Canada
Marie-Anne BIBEAU was the child of Jean-Baptiste BIBEAU and Madeleine GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE
Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec
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Québec Genealogy Notes
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Québec Place Names Through History
Québec has been described by several names during different periods of its history. Knowing the period name can make older records easier to recognize.
- 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 — 179826 October 1798
Sorel, Lower Canada
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
1826 Marriage / PartnerLouis LEROUX dit PROVENÇAL and Marie-Anne BIBEAU 6 February 1826, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)
He was 27 years old.
1829 Birth of ChildMarie-Anne LEROUX dite PROVENÇAL was born 29 May 1829, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)
Louis was 30 years old.
1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England1837 - 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)
1847 Marriage of ChildMarie-Anne LEROUX dite PROVENÇAL married 17 August 1847, Sorel, Canada East to Maxime HUS COURNOYER
1851 Marriage of ChildTheotiste PROVENÇAL married 4 November 1851, Sorel, Canada East to Edouard LETENDRE
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.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.
1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada 1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)
Death — 18859 November 1885
Saint-Robert, Québec, Canada
He died at the age of 87.
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