Reine PAQUET dite LAVALLÉE

(b. 4 July 1798 , Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada d. 15 June 1882 , Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada )

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Reine PAQUET dite LAVALLÉE was born 4 July 1798 in Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada

Reine PAQUET dite LAVALLÉE was the child of Joseph PAQUET and Marie-Françoise DUSSAULT and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph-Marie PAQUET and Marie-Josephe OUELLET (maternal) Jean-Baptiste DUSSAULT dit TOUPIN and Marie-Louise PRIVÉ

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

Reine married François DANSEREAU 9 January 1815 in Verchères, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
François DANSEREAU was born 26 September 1791 in Verchères, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-Vercheres). François died 2 March 1855 in Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada. François was the child of François DANSEREAU and Marie-Madeleine LEVASSEUR.

Reine PAQUET dite LAVALLÉE died 15 June 1882 in Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu, 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 Reine PAQUET dite LAVALLÉE

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Reine PAQUET dite LAVALLÉE married

François DANSEREAU-- Date: 9 January 1815 Place: Verchères, Lower Canada
François DANSEREAU was the child of François DANSEREAU and Marie-Madeleine LEVASSEUR

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Children of François DANSEREAU and Reine PAQUET dite LAVALLÉE:

Marie-Reine DANSEREAU (b.26 November 1815, Verchères, Lower Canada d. 10 September 1868, Beloeil, Québec, Canada )
m. Pierre LAMBERT 3 October 1837 in Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

Madeleine DANSEREAU (b.6 July 1817, Verchères, Lower Canada d. 22 July 1899, Roxton Falls, Québec, Canada )
m. Henri PETIT dit BEAUCHEMIN 31 August 1841 in Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

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1798 Birth
4 July 1798
Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada

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

1815 Marriage / Partner
Reine PAQUET dite LAVALLÉE and François DANSEREAU 9 January 1815, Verchères, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-Vercheres)

She was 16 years old.

1815 Birth of Child
Marie-Reine DANSEREAU was born 26 November 1815, Verchères, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-Vercheres)

Reine was 17 years old.

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1817 Birth of Child
Madeleine DANSEREAU was born 6 July 1817, Verchères, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-Vercheres)

Reine was 19 years old.

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 - 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 Marriage of Child
Marie-Reine DANSEREAU married 3 October 1837, Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada to Pierre LAMBERT

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

1841 Marriage of Child
Madeleine DANSEREAU married 31 August 1841, Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada to Henri PETIT dit BEAUCHEMIN

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.

1855 Death of Spouse/Partner
François DANSEREAU died 2 March 1855, Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

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.