Edesse LAVALLÉE

(b. 20 September 1830 , Sorel, Lower Canada d. 28 June 1869 , Sorel, Québec, Canada )

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Edesse LAVALLÉE was born 20 September 1830 in Sorel, Lower Canada

Edesse LAVALLÉE was the child of Jean-Baptiste LAVALLEE and Marie-Archange CHAPDELAINE dite LARIVIÈRE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptiste LAVALLEE and Marie-Anne RIVARD (maternal) Charles CHAPDELAINE dit VALERIEN and Angelique VEL dite SANSOUCY

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

Edesse married Jean-Baptiste CAPLETTE 17 July 1849 in Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Jean-Baptiste CAPLETTE was born 11 December 1826 in Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre). Jean-Baptiste died abt. 1911 in Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre). Jean-Baptiste was the child of Louis CAPLET and Marie-Appoline-Pauline HUS MILLET.

Edesse LAVALLÉE died 28 June 1869 in Sorel, 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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Edesse LAVALLÉE married

Jean-Baptiste CAPLETTE-- Date: 17 July 1849 Place: Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Canada East
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Jean-Baptiste CAPLETTE was the child of Louis CAPLET and Marie-Appoline-Pauline HUS MILLET

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Children of Jean-Baptiste CAPLETTE and Edesse LAVALLÉE:

Philomene CAPLETTE (b.4 May 1851, Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Canada East d. 15 December 1892, Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA )
m. Alfred ANGER 24 May 1875 in Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA (Globe) (Lensdale) (Saundersdale) (Shuttleville)

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1830 Birth
20 September 1830
Sorel, 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)

1849 Marriage / Partner
Edesse LAVALLÉE and Jean-Baptiste CAPLETTE 17 July 1849, Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada

She was 18 years old.

1849 marriage

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

1851 Birth of Child
Philomene CAPLETTE was born 4 May 1851, Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada

Edesse was 20 years old.

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.