Paul DESMARAIS dit LUSSIER

(b. 12 November 1788 , Yamaska, Province of Québec, Canada d. 29 July 1875 , St-Pie-de-Guire, Nicolet, Quebec, Canada )

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Paul DESMARAIS dit LUSSIER was born 12 November 1788 in Yamaska, Province of Québec, Canada

Paul DESMARAIS dit LUSSIER was the child of Christophe DESMARAIS and Catherine CARTIER and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph-Abraham DESMARAIS and Elisabeth-Isabelle LUSSIER (maternal) François CARTIER and Marie-Louise CHAPDELAINE dite LARIVIÈRE

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

Paul married Angele BOISVERT 29 January 1810 in Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Angele BOISVERT was born 16 September 1793 in Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada. Angele died 30 July 1837 in Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada. Angele was the child of Jean-Baptiste BOISVERT and Josephte RAYMOND.

Paul DESMARAIS dit LUSSIER died 29 July 1875 in St-Pie-de-Guire, Nicolet, Quebec, Canada.

m. Boisvert Angele
m. Theroux Josephte

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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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

Québec Généalogie - What is a 'dit/dite' name? When the first settlers came to Québec from France it was a custom to add a 'dit' nickname to the surname. The English translation of 'dit' is 'said'. The Colonists of Nouvelle France added 'dit' names as distinguishers. A settler might have wanted to differentiate their family from their siblings by taking a 'dit' name that described the locale to which they had relocated. The acquiring of a 'dit' name might also be the result of a casual adoption, whereby the person wanted to honor the family who had raised them. Another reason was also to distinguish themselves by taking as a 'dit' name the town or village in France from which they originated. This custom ended around 1900 when people began using only one name, either the 'dit' nickname or their original surname.

Source: American-French Genealogical Society, Woonsocket, Rhode Island (www.afgs.org/ditnames/index1.html)

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Family and Children of Paul DESMARAIS dit LUSSIER

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Paul DESMARAIS dit LUSSIER married

Angele BOISVERT-- Date: 29 January 1810 Place: Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada
Angele BOISVERT was the child of Jean-Baptiste BOISVERT and Josephte RAYMOND

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Children of Paul DESMARAIS dit LUSSIER and Angele BOISVERT:

Marie DESMARAIS (b.11 March 1814, Yamaska, Lower Canada d. , )
m. Joseph THEROUX 14 February 1831 in Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

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1788 Birth
12 November 1788
Yamaska, Province of Québec, Canada

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

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

1810 Marriage / Partner
Paul DESMARAIS dit LUSSIER and Angele BOISVERT 29 January 1810, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

He was 21 years old.

1814 Birth of Child
Marie DESMARAIS was born 11 March 1814, Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska)

Paul was 25 years old.

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)

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

1831 Marriage of Child
Marie DESMARAIS married 14 February 1831, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada to Joseph THEROUX

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

1837 Death of Spouse/Partner
Angele BOISVERT died 30 July 1837, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

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.

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.