Jean-Francois SIROIS

(b. 16 July 1743 , La Pocatière, Canada, New France d. 5 May 1775 , Rivière-Ouelle, Province of Québec, Canada )

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Jean-Francois SIROIS was born 16 July 1743 in La Pocatière, Canada, New France

Jean-Francois SIROIS was the child of Jean-Baptiste SIROIS dit DUPLESSIS and Marie-Josephte PINEL dite LAFRANCE and the grandchild of: (paternal) François SIROIS dit DUPLESSIS and Marie-Anne THIBODEAU (THIBOUTOT) (maternal) Charles-François PINEL dit LAFRANCE and Marie-Anne OUELLET

Jean-Francois SIROIS died 5 May 1775 in Rivière-Ouelle, Province of Québec, Canada .

m. Deschamps Catherine

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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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1743 Birth
16 July 1743
La Pocatière, Canada, New France

1753 - The lightning rod is invented (Benjamin Franklin, United States)

1763 - France cedes its North American posessions to Britain by the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years War (French and Indian War). Quebec City French-speaking Catholics were now under the rule of Protestant Britain under King George III.