Marie-Esther DELAGE

(b. 5 November 1808 , Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada d. 25 March 1877 , Saint-Césaire, Québec, Canada )

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Marie-Esther DELAGE was born 5 November 1808 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada

Marie-Esther DELAGE was the child of Michel DELAGE and Marie-Louise CASAVANT and the grandchild of: (paternal) Michel DELAGE dit LAFLEUR and Louise DAVIAU (maternal) Louis CASAVANT and Marie-Josephe SAVIGNAC

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Marie-Esther married Augustin-Louis GODU 18 October 1825 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Augustin-Louis GODU was born 15 October 1798 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire, Saint-Hyacinthe-le-Confesseur). Augustin-Louis died 19 June 1886 in Saint-Césaire, Québec, Canada (St-Cesaire). Augustin-Louis was the child of Augustin GODU and Geneviève HUS MILET (MILLET).

Marie-Esther DELAGE died 25 March 1877 in Saint-Césaire, 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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Marie-Esther DELAGE married

Augustin-Louis GODU-- Date: 18 October 1825 Place: Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada
Augustin-Louis GODU was the child of Augustin GODU and Geneviève HUS MILET (MILLET)

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Children of Augustin-Louis GODU and Marie-Esther DELAGE:

Mathilda GODU (GODDU) (b.11 November 1826, Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada d. abt. 1890, Quincy, Massachusetts, USA)
m. Henri FREDETTE 15 October 1844 in Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

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1808 Birth
5 November 1808
Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada

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)

1825 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Esther DELAGE and Augustin-Louis GODU 18 October 1825, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire, Saint-Hyacinthe-le-Confesseur)

She was 16 years old.

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1826 Birth of Child
Mathilda GODU (GODDU) was born 11 November 1826, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire, Saint-Hyacinthe-le-Confesseur)

Marie-Esther was 18 years old.

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
Mathilda GODU (GODDU) married 15 October 1844, Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada to Henri FREDETTE

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.