Jerome TURMEL

(b. 4 February 1779 , Sainte-Marie, Province of Québec, Canada d. 31 March 1869 , Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Québec, Canada )

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Jerome TURMEL was born 4 February 1779 in Sainte-Marie, Province of Québec, Canada

Jerome TURMEL was the child of Jean-François TURMEL and Françoise BISSON (BUISSON) and the grandchild of: (maternal) Jean-François BISSON and Marie-Françoise PETITCLERC

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

Jerome married Marie DOYON 2 October 1797 in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie DOYON was born 13 December 1779 in Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce). Marie died 12 March 1848 in Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce). Marie was the child of Jean-Alexis DOYON and Geneviève NADEAU.

Jerome TURMEL died 31 March 1869 in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, 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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Jerome TURMEL married

Marie DOYON-- Date: 2 October 1797 Place: Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Lower Canada
Marie DOYON was the child of Jean-Alexis DOYON and Geneviève NADEAU

Children of Jerome TURMEL and Marie DOYON:

Thomas TURMEL (b.abt. 1827, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )
m. Cesarie JACQUES 31 July 1844 in Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce)

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1779 Birth
4 February 1779
Sainte-Marie, Province of Québec, Canada

1784 - The bifocal lens is invented (Benjamin Franklin, United States)

The oil lamp is invented (Aimé Argand, Switzerland)

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

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

1797 Marriage / Partner
Jerome TURMEL and Marie DOYON 2 October 1797, Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Québec, Canada

He was 18 years old.

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

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

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)

1844 Marriage of Child
Thomas TURMEL married 31 July 1844, Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce) to Cesarie JACQUES

1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1848 Death of Spouse/Partner
Marie DOYON died 12 March 1848, Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce)

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.