Toussaint AUDET dit LAPOINTE

(b. abt. 1792 , Chambly, Lower Canada d. 18 March 1874 , Québec, Québec, Canada )

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Toussaint AUDET dit LAPOINTE was born abt. 1792 in Chambly, Lower Canada

Toussaint AUDET dit LAPOINTE was the child of François AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Françoise GAUTHIER and the grandchild of: (paternal) François AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Angelique RÉGUINDEAU (maternal) Pierre GAUTHIER dit ST-GERMAIN and Louise SICOTTE

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Toussaint married Ursule QUINTIN dite DUBOIS 28 September 1813 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Ursule QUINTIN dite DUBOIS was born 25 January 1799 in Lachenaie, Québec, Canada (Saint-Charles-de-Lachenaie). Ursule was the child of Jean-Baptiste QUINTIN dit DUBOIS and Marie-Anne COLLETTE (COLLET).

Toussaint AUDET dit LAPOINTE died 18 March 1874 in Québec, 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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Family and Children of Toussaint AUDET dit LAPOINTE

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Toussaint AUDET dit LAPOINTE married

Ursule QUINTIN dite DUBOIS-- Date: 28 September 1813 Place: Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada
Ursule QUINTIN dite DUBOIS was the child of Jean-Baptiste QUINTIN dit DUBOIS and Marie-Anne COLLETTE (COLLET)

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Children of Toussaint AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Ursule QUINTIN dite DUBOIS:

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Louis Cleophas AUDET dit LAPOINTE (b.1 July 1836, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Lower Canada d. 5 April 1915, Meriden, Connecticut, USA)
m. Marie Celina POYER 18 July 1864 in Henryville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Georges-de-Henryville)

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

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

1813 Marriage / Partner
Toussaint AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Ursule QUINTIN dite DUBOIS 28 September 1813, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire, Saint-Hyacinthe-le-Confesseur)

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

1836 Birth of Child
Louis Cleophas AUDET dit LAPOINTE was born 1 July 1836, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada (Saint-Hilaire)

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)

1864 Marriage of Child
Louis Cleophas AUDET dit LAPOINTE married 18 July 1864, Henryville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Georges-de-Henryville) to Marie Celina POYER

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.