Marie-Josette SURPRENANT dite SANSOUCY

(b. 27 March 1791 , L'Acadie, Lower Canada d. 25 May 1882 , Saint-Rémi, Québec, Canada )

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Marie-Josette SURPRENANT dite SANSOUCY was born 27 March 1791 in L'Acadie, Lower Canada

Marie-Josette SURPRENANT dite SANSOUCY was the child of Joseph-Léon SURPRENANT and Marie-Josephte LABERGE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph SURPRENANT and Geneviève LAMARRE (maternal) Guillaume LABERGE and Marie PHANEUF

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

Marie-Josette married Jerome BESSETTE 16 November 1807 in L'Acadie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Jerome BESSETTE was born 21 July 1786 in L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie). Jerome died 25 November 1869 in Saint-Rémi, Québec, Canada (Saint-Remi-de-la-Salle). Jerome was the child of Jean-Baptiste BESSETTE and Marie-Josette DUMAS.

Marie-Josette SURPRENANT dite SANSOUCY died 25 May 1882 in Saint-Rémi, 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.

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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Marie-Josette SURPRENANT dite SANSOUCY married

Jerome BESSETTE-- Date: 16 November 1807 Place: L'Acadie, Lower Canada
Jerome BESSETTE was the child of Jean-Baptiste BESSETTE and Marie-Josette DUMAS

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Children of Jerome BESSETTE and Marie-Josette SURPRENANT dite SANSOUCY:

Jovide BESSETTE (b.9 August 1816, Saint-Constant, Lower Canada d. 1 March 1890, Saint-Constant, Québec, Canada)
m. Laurent HEBERT 17 November 1835 in Saint-Rémi, Québec, Canada (Saint-Remi-de-la-Salle)

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1791 Birth
27 March 1791
L'Acadie, Lower Canada

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

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

1807 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Josette SURPRENANT dite SANSOUCY and Jerome BESSETTE 16 November 1807, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie)

She was 16 years old.

1816 Birth of Child
Jovide BESSETTE was born 9 August 1816, Saint-Constant, Québec, Canada

Marie-Josette 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

1835 Marriage of Child
Jovide BESSETTE married 17 November 1835, Saint-Rémi, Québec, Canada (Saint-Remi-de-la-Salle) to Laurent HEBERT

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)

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.