Françoise PAQUET

(b. 26 October 1796 , Les Cèdres, Lower Canada d. 29 September 1881 , Vaudreuil, Québec, Canada )

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Françoise PAQUET was born 26 October 1796 in Les Cèdres, Lower Canada

Françoise PAQUET was the child of François PAQUET and Archange REPENTIGNY (DEREPENTINGY) and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jacques PAQUET and Marie-Anne TAYLOR (maternal) Joseph REPENTIGNY (DEREPENTINGY) and Françoise LEFÈBVRE

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

Françoise married Joseph ROCHON 7 February 1820 in Les Cèdres, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Joseph ROCHON was born 2 February 1770 in Saint-Laurent, Montréal, Québec, Canada. Joseph was the child of Jacques ROCHON (ROCHERON) and Marie-Anne GUERET (QUERET) dite LATULIPPE.

Françoise PAQUET died 29 September 1881 in Vaudreuil, 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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Françoise PAQUET married

Joseph ROCHON-- Date: 7 February 1820 Place: Les Cèdres, Lower Canada
Joseph ROCHON was the child of Jacques ROCHON (ROCHERON) and Marie-Anne GUERET (QUERET) dite LATULIPPE

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Children of Joseph ROCHON and Françoise PAQUET:

Emelie ROCHON (b.2 November 1820, Les Cèdres, Lower Canada d. , )
m. Jean-Baptiste POIRIER 11 January 1842 in Vaudreuil, Québec, Canada (Vaudreuil-Dorion)

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1796 Birth
26 October 1796
Les Cèdres, Lower Canada

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 Marriage / Partner
Françoise PAQUET and Joseph ROCHON 7 February 1820, Les Cèdres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Soulanges Les Cedres)

She was 23 years old.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1820 Birth of Child
Emelie ROCHON was born 2 November 1820, Les Cèdres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Soulanges Les Cedres)

Françoise was 24 years old.

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
Emelie ROCHON married 11 January 1842, Vaudreuil, Québec, Canada (Vaudreuil-Dorion) to Jean-Baptiste POIRIER

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.

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.