Marie-Caroline DUPONT

Born

27 December 1835 , Yamachiche, Lower Canada

Died

2/19/1905 , Yamachiche, Québec, Canada

Age: 70

Marie-Caroline married François Xavier GERIN dit LAJOIE . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
François Xavier GERIN dit LAJOIE was born 20 November 1831 in Yamachiche, Lower Canada . François Xavier died 9/1/1900 in Wild Rice, North Dakota, USA. François Xavier was the child of André GUERIN dit LAJOIE (GERIN) and Victoire CARON .

Parents & Family of Marie-Caroline DUPONT

Parents of Marie-Caroline DUPONT

Father

Charles DUPONT

Mother

Marguerite FALARDEAU

Grandparents of Marie-Caroline DUPONT

Paternal grandparents

Guillaume Alexis DUPONT dit FLAMANT Marie-Elisabeth BETTEZ

Maternal grandparents

François FALARDEAU Angele BIRON

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Marie-Caroline DUPONT

Marie-Caroline DUPONT married

François Xavier GERIN dit LAJOIE
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François Xavier GERIN dit LAJOIE was the child of André GUERIN dit LAJOIE (GERIN) and Victoire CARON

Children of François Xavier GERIN dit LAJOIE and Marie-Caroline DUPONT

Charles GERIN dit LAJOIE

Born: 14 January 1857, Yamachiche, Canada East
Died: abt. 1921, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

Married: Eleonore GELINAS 14 January 1879 Place: Yamachiche, Québec, Canada

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Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1835
27 December 1835
Yamachiche, 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.

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
Charles GERIN dit LAJOIE was born 14 January 1857, Yamachiche, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-d'Yamachiche)

Marie-Caroline was 21 years old.

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.