Modeste PELOQUIN

(b. 21 December 1812 , Sorel, Lower Canada d. 24 September 1900 , Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada )

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Modeste PELOQUIN was born 21 December 1812 in Sorel, Lower Canada

Modeste PELOQUIN was the child of Antoine PELOQUIN dit FELIX CREDY and Marguerite DUFAULT and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph PELOQUIN dit FÉLIX and Marie-Louise HUS MILLET (maternal) Jean-Baptiste DUFAULT dit RACLOS and Marie-Josephe RAJOTTE

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Modeste married Benjamin GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE 2 August 1831 in Sorel, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Benjamin GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE was born 11 April 1810 in Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre). Benjamin died 31 January 1883 in Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada. Benjamin was the child of René GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE and Marie-Anne ST-MARTIN.

Modeste PELOQUIN died 24 September 1900 in Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Québec, 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.

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Modeste PELOQUIN married

Benjamin GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE-- Date: 2 August 1831 Place: Sorel, Lower Canada
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Benjamin GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE was the child of René GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE and Marie-Anne ST-MARTIN

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Children of Benjamin GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE and Modeste PELOQUIN:

Marie GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE (b.18 December 1836, Sorel, Lower Canada d. 1 May 1903, Sorel, Québec, Canada )
m. Simon ST-MARTIN 14 February 1854 in Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada

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1812 Birth
21 December 1812
Sorel, Lower Canada

Baptism

Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

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

1831 Marriage / Partner
Modeste PELOQUIN and Benjamin GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE 2 August 1831, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

She was 18 years old.

1831 marriage

Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
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1836 - July 21 - Opening of the first railway in Canada from La Prairie to St. Jean, Quebec

1836 Birth of Child
Marie GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE was born 18 December 1836, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Modeste was 24 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.

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1854 Marriage of Child
Marie GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE married 14 February 1854, Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada to Simon ST-MARTIN

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.