Thérèse CAYA

Born

2 August 1829 , Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada

Died

24 January 1897 , Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada

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Joseph CAYA dit MADRAN Marguerite HOUDE

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Born: 2 August 1829 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada

Father: Joseph CAYA dit MADRAN

Mother: Marguerite HOUDE

Paternal grandparents: Louis-Joseph CAYA (CAILLA) , Josephte VANASSE PRÉCOURT

Maternal grandparents: Alexis-Clair HOUDE , Marie-Angélique CHEVREFILS dite BELISLE

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Thérèse married Narcisse COURCHESNE 9 January 1855 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 12 children.
Narcisse COURCHESNE was born 16 May 1827 in Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada. Narcisse died 2 March 1899 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre). Narcisse was the child of Alexandre COURCHESNE and Marie BOUCHER.

Thérèse CAYA died 24 January 1897 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada .
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Thérèse CAYA married

Narcisse COURCHESNE
Marriage date: 9 January 1855
Marriage place: Baie-du-Fèbvre, Canada East
Source: Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

Narcisse COURCHESNE was the child of Alexandre COURCHESNE and Marie BOUCHER

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Children of Narcisse COURCHESNE and Thérèse CAYA

Joseph-Alexandre COURCHESNE

Born: 14 October 1855, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Canada East
Died: 25 March 1856, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Canada East

Marie-Sara-Adelaide COURCHESNE

Born: 4 June 1857, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Canada East
Died: 15 August 1857, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Canada East

Joseph-Arsene-Israel COURCHESNE

Born: 4 August 1858, Saint-François-du-Lac, Canada East
Died: 22 July 1935, Ste Cecile ,Valleyfield, Beauharnois, Québec, Canada

Married: Marie-Christine PELISSIER 6 July 1886 Place: Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska)

Narcisse COURCHESNE

Born: 25 September 1860, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Canada East
Died: 29 March 1947, Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA

Married: Mathilde BELLEROSE dite MEUNIER 25 October 1881 Place: Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Hormisdas COURCHESNE

Born: 1 November 1862, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Canada East
Died: abt. 1946, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada

Married: Marie-Adelaide BELLEROSE 29 September 1884 Place: Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Joseph-Odile-Hermangilde COURCHESNE

Born: 10 April 1864, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Canada East
Died: ,

Marie Parmelia COURCHESNE

Born: 5 January 1866, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Canada East
Died: abt. 1938, Chicopee, Massachusetts, USA

Married: Octave GARIEPY 2 July 1887 Place: Hooksett, New Hampshire, USA

Marie-Louise-Dina COURCHESNE

Born: 4 November 1867, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Canada East
Died: abt. 1947, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada

Married: Hormisdas TROTTIER 3 September 1901 Place: Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Eugenie-Edesse COURCHESNE

Born: 16 March 1869, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada
Died: 4 April 1869, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada

Joseph-Octave COURCHESNE

Born: 24 March 1871, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada
Died: abt. 1943, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada

Married: Amanda BELISLE 23 February 1903 Place: Pierreville, Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Thomas)

Joseph Ludger COURCHESNE

Born: 7 November 1872, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada
Died: 8 November 1951, Hooksett, New Hampshire, USA

Married: Aldea GRANDMONT 18 October 1897 Place: Hooksett, New Hampshire, USA

Joseph Louis Hermangilde "Herman" COURCHESNE

Born: 10 November 1875, Pierreville, Yamaska, Québec, Canada
Died: 22 January 1965, St-Clet, Quebec, Canada

Married: Marie-Coronna MEUNIER dite BELLEROSE 19 May 1903 Place: Pierreville, Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Thomas)

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Birth — 1829
2 August 1829
Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada

Biography
Notes: Aussi Thérèse Cailhot.
Naissance: 1 AUG 1829, Baie-du-Febvre, Yamaska, QC
Baptême: 2 AUG 1829, Baie-du-Febvre, Yamaska, QC
Par/ mar: François Deshaie-Sirenne et Marie-Anne Kiertier (ep. Olivier Caya).
Décès: 22 JAN 1897, Baie-du-Febvre, Yamaska, QC
Sépulture: 24 JAN 1897, Baie-du-Febvre, Yamaska, QC
Dcd: 67 ans.
Conjoint: Narcisse COURCHESNE, (m. 9 JAN 1855, Baie-du-Febvre, Yamaska, QC)

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

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

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.

1855 Marriage / Partner
Thérèse CAYA and Narcisse COURCHESNE 9 January 1855, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

She was 25 years old.

1855 marriage

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

1855 Birth of Child
Joseph-Alexandre COURCHESNE was born 14 October 1855, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Thérèse was 26 years old.

1856 Death of Child
Joseph-Alexandre COURCHESNE died 25 March 1856, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Thérèse was 26 years old.

1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1857 - Ottawa chosen by Queen Victoria as the capital of the united colony of Canada.

1857 Birth of Child
Marie-Sara-Adelaide COURCHESNE was born 4 June 1857, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Thérèse was 27 years old.

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1858 Birth of Child
Joseph-Arsene-Israel COURCHESNE was born 4 August 1858, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

Thérèse was 29 years old.

1860 Birth of Child
Narcisse COURCHESNE was born 25 September 1860, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Thérèse was 31 years old.

1862 Birth of Child
Hormisdas COURCHESNE was born 1 November 1862, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Thérèse was 33 years old.

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1864 Birth of Child
Joseph-Odile-Hermangilde COURCHESNE was born 10 April 1864, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Thérèse was 34 years old.

1866 Birth of Child
Marie Parmelia COURCHESNE was born 5 January 1866, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Thérèse was 36 years old.

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

1867 Birth of Child
Marie-Louise-Dina COURCHESNE was born 4 November 1867, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Thérèse was 38 years old.

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1869 Birth of Child
Eugenie-Edesse COURCHESNE was born 16 March 1869, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Thérèse was 39 years old.

1871 Birth of Child
Joseph-Octave COURCHESNE was born 24 March 1871, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Thérèse was 41 years old.

1872 Birth of Child
Joseph Ludger COURCHESNE was born 7 November 1872, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Thérèse was 43 years old.

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1875 Birth of Child
Joseph Louis Hermangilde "Herman" COURCHESNE was born 10 November 1875, Pierreville, Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Thomas)

Thérèse was 46 years old.

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1881 Marriage of Child
Narcisse COURCHESNE married 25 October 1881, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre) to Mathilde BELLEROSE dite MEUNIER

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1884 Marriage of Child
Hormisdas COURCHESNE married 29 September 1884, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre) to Marie-Adelaide BELLEROSE

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1886 Marriage of Child
Joseph-Arsene-Israel COURCHESNE married 6 July 1886, Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska) to Marie-Christine PELISSIER

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1887 Marriage of Child
Marie Parmelia COURCHESNE married 2 July 1887, Hooksett, New Hampshire, USA to Octave GARIEPY

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1894 - December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - May 1 - Charles Tupper becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - July 11 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes Prime Minister of Canada