Joseph LANOUE

(b. 15 October 1795 , L'Acadie, Lower Canada d. 26 September 1872 , Saint-Sébastien, Iberville, Québec, Canada )

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Joseph LANOUE was born 15 October 1795 in L'Acadie, Lower Canada

Joseph LANOUE was the child of Joseph-Jacques LANOUE and Anastasie DUPUIS and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre LANOUE and Marie Ursule BRUN (maternal) Louis-Sylvain DUPUIS and Françoise LEBLANC

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

Joseph married Marie Louise DUFAULT 2 June 1817 in L'Acadie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 3 children.
Marie Louise DUFAULT was born 24 September 1796 in L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie). Marie Louise died 8 September 1869 in St George, Kankakee, Illinois, USA. Marie Louise was the child of Joseph DUFAULT and Marguerite LAFAILLE.

Joseph LANOUE died 26 September 1872 in Saint-Sébastien, Iberville, Québec, Canada .
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Occupation

Joseph LANOUE was a farmer.
The farmer, cultivateur, or cultivator, was a person who cultivated and exploited the land in order to get a crop.

He may have been the proprietor of his own parcel(s) of land. He could, depending on the land size, have employed other agricultural workers. If he didn't own the land, he was called a tenant farmer.
Source: tfcq.ca

farmer

Source: Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts

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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 Joseph LANOUE

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Joseph LANOUE married

Marie Louise DUFAULT-- Date: 2 June 1817 Place: L'Acadie, Lower Canada
Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
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Marie Louise DUFAULT was the child of Joseph DUFAULT and Marguerite LAFAILLE

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Children of Joseph LANOUE and Marie Louise DUFAULT:

Margaret (Marguerite) LANOUE (LANOUX) (b.5 April 1818, L'Acadie, Lower Canada d. 28 April 1893, Huntington, Vermont, USA)
m. Laurent (Loren) Joseph BROWE (BREAULT) (BRAULT) 8 May 1838 in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada (St-Johns) (Dorchester)

Mathilde LANOUE (b.18 September 1823, L'Acadie, Lower Canada d. 3 July 1879, Saint-Sébastien, Iberville, Québec, Canada )

Rosalie LANOUE (b.26 February 1829 , Iberville, Lower Canada d. 9 January 1894, Chicago, Illinois, USA)

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1795 Birth
15 October 1795
L'Acadie, Lower Canada

Joseph LANOUE - Baptism Saint-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie, LAcadie, Quebec

Baptism
Saint-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie, L'Acadie, Quebec

Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

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

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1817 Marriage / Partner
Joseph LANOUE and Marie Louise DUFAULT 2 June 1817, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie)

He was 21 years old.

Joseph LANOUE - 1817 Marriage Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie, LAcadie, Quebec

1817 Marriage Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie, L'Acadie, Quebec

Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

1818 - Canada's border is defined as the 49th Parallel from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains.

1818 Birth of Child
Margaret (Marguerite) LANOUE (LANOUX) was born 5 April 1818, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie)

Joseph was 22 years old.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1823 Birth of Child
Mathilde LANOUE was born 18 September 1823, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie)

Joseph was 27 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)

1829 Birth of Child
Rosalie LANOUE was born 26 February 1829 , Iberville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Athanase-de-Bleury)

Joseph was 33 years old.

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

1838 Marriage of Child
Margaret (Marguerite) LANOUE (LANOUX) married 8 May 1838, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada (St-Johns) (Dorchester) to Laurent (Loren) Joseph BROWE (BREAULT) (BRAULT)

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)

1851 Canadian Census - familysearch.org
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Name: Joseph Lanoue
Gender: Male
Age in years: 58
Estimated birth year: 1793
Birthplace: L'Aprairie
Province: Canada East (Quebec)
District: Chambly County
District number: 5
Subdistrict: L'acadie
Subdistrict number: 67
Page: 63
Line number: 16
Library and Archives Canada film number: C_1118
Collection: Canada Census 1851
Household Members:
Name Age
Joseph Lanoue 58
hmmm... on closer inspection, he appears to be living with fille Leblanc, age 62
Marie Lanoue, 32
Jos Lanoue, 25
Eusebe Lanoue 16

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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1869 Death of Spouse/Partner
Marie Louise DUFAULT died 8 September 1869, St George, Kankakee, Illinois, USA

1871 Canadian Census - familysearch.org
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Name: Joseph Lanoue
Gender: Male
Age in years: 75
Estimated birth year: 1796
Birthplace: Q
Marital status: Widowed
Origin (Ancestry): Francaise
Religion: Catholique
Census place: 02, St-Sébastien g, Iberville 124, Quebec
Page: 8
Line number: 5
Dwelling: 22
Household id: 24
Film number: 2229032
Library and Archives Canada film number: C-10070
Digital GS number: 4395448
Image number: 400
Collection: Canada Census 1871

Household Members:
Name Age
David Metthé 45
Aurélie Metthé 45
Marie Metthé 21
Guillaume Metthé 14
Eulalie Metthé 10
Joseph Metthé 5
Joseph Lanoue 75
Hubert Dufresne 13