Adelaide ELIE (HELIE) dite BRETON

(b. 14 June 1833 , Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada d. 21 April 1875 , Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada )

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Adelaide ELIE (HELIE) dite BRETON was born 14 June 1833 in Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada

Adelaide ELIE (HELIE) dite BRETON was the child of Pierre ELIE (HELIE) dit BRETON and Catherine BISSON and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph ELIE (HELIE) dit BRETON and Marie-Louise POULIN (maternal) André BISSON and Catherine DOYON

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

Adelaide married Antoine GREGOIRE 6 February 1855 in Sainte-Marie, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Antoine GREGOIRE was born 22 November 1833 in Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce). Antoine died 11 February 1909 in Saint-Henri, Québec, Canada (Saint-Henri-de-Lauzon). Antoine was the child of Jean-Baptiste GREGOIRE and Adelaide DENAULT (DENEAU).

Adelaide ELIE (HELIE) dite BRETON died 21 April 1875 in Sainte-Marie, 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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

Québec Généalogie - 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'. The Colonists of Nouvelle France added 'dit' names as distinguishers. A settler might have wanted to differentiate their family from their siblings by taking a 'dit' name that described the locale to which they had relocated. The acquiring of a 'dit' name might also be the result of a casual adoption, whereby the person wanted to honor the family who had raised them. Another reason was also to distinguish themselves by taking as a 'dit' name the town or village in France from which they originated. This custom ended around 1900 when people began using only one name, either the 'dit' nickname or their original surname.

Source: American-French Genealogical Society, Woonsocket, Rhode Island (www.afgs.org/ditnames/index1.html)

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Family and Children of Adelaide ELIE (HELIE) dite BRETON

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Adelaide ELIE (HELIE) dite BRETON married

Antoine GREGOIRE-- Date: 6 February 1855 Place: Sainte-Marie, Canada East
Antoine GREGOIRE was the child of Jean-Baptiste GREGOIRE and Adelaide DENAULT (DENEAU)

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Children of Antoine GREGOIRE and Adelaide ELIE (HELIE) dite BRETON:

Marie-Elmire GREGOIRE (b.10 March 1862, Sainte-Marie, Canada East d. 6 July 1935, Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada )
m. Jean TURMEL 1 August 1882 in Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce)

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1833 Birth
14 June 1833
Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada

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
Adelaide ELIE (HELIE) dite BRETON and Antoine GREGOIRE 6 February 1855, Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce)

She was 21 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.

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

1862 Birth of Child
Marie-Elmire GREGOIRE was born 10 March 1862, Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce)

Adelaide was 28 years old.

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.