Gabriel DESROCHES (DESROSIERS)

(b. 20 August 1791 , Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada d. 28 February 1870 , L'Avenir, Québec, Canada )

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Gabriel DESROCHES (DESROSIERS) was born 20 August 1791 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada

Gabriel DESROCHES (DESROSIERS) was the child of Jean-Baptiste-Louis DESROCHES (DESROSIERS) and Madeleine GAUTHIER and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre DESROCHERS and Marguerite CAILLÉ (maternal) Gabriel GAUTHIER and Madeleine JOYAL

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Gabriel married Marie-Élisabeth-Isabelle BAILLARGEON 3 March 1812 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Élisabeth-Isabelle BAILLARGEON was born 16 November 1787 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre). Marie-Élisabeth-Isabelle died 1 March 1848 in Drummondville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Frédéric-de-Drummondville). Marie-Élisabeth-Isabelle was the child of Pierre BAILLARGEON and Marie-Elisabeth CHEVREFILS dite BELISLE.

Gabriel DESROCHES (DESROSIERS) died 28 February 1870 in L'Avenir, 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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Family and Children of Gabriel DESROCHES (DESROSIERS)

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Gabriel DESROCHES (DESROSIERS) married

Marie-Élisabeth-Isabelle BAILLARGEON-- Date: 3 March 1812 Place: Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada
Marie-Élisabeth-Isabelle BAILLARGEON was the child of Pierre BAILLARGEON and Marie-Elisabeth CHEVREFILS dite BELISLE

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Children of Gabriel DESROCHES (DESROSIERS) and Marie-Élisabeth-Isabelle BAILLARGEON:

Louis DESROCHERS (b.20 June 1819, Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada d. 24 November 1909, Sheffield, Vermont, USA)
m. Marie Lucie GUIMOND 18 October 1842 in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

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1791 Birth
20 August 1791
Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1812 Marriage / Partner
Gabriel DESROCHES (DESROSIERS) and Marie-Élisabeth-Isabelle BAILLARGEON 3 March 1812, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

He was 20 years old.

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.

1819 Birth of Child
Louis DESROCHERS was born 20 June 1819, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

Gabriel was 27 years old.

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

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

1842 Marriage of Child
Louis DESROCHERS married 18 October 1842, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada to Marie Lucie GUIMOND

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)

1848 Death of Spouse/Partner
Marie-Élisabeth-Isabelle BAILLARGEON died 1 March 1848, Drummondville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Frédéric-de-Drummondville)

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.

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.