Marguerite DUPUIS

(b. 10 December 1801 , L'Acadie, Lower Canada d. 23 March 1882 , L'Acadie, Québec, Canada )

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Marguerite DUPUIS was born 10 December 1801 in L'Acadie, Lower Canada

Marguerite DUPUIS was the child of Joseph Marie DUPUIS and Scholastique GAUDREAU and the grandchild of: (paternal) Charles DUPUIS and Anne DOUCET (maternal) Joseph GAUDREAU and Marie-Scholastique PROULX

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

Marguerite married François MOLLEUR 6 April 1820 in L'Acadie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
François MOLLEUR was born 26 July 1794 in Chambly, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Chambly). François was the child of François MOLLEUR and Archange DUBUC.

Marguerite DUPUIS died 23 March 1882 in L'Acadie, 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.

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Family and Children of Marguerite DUPUIS

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Marguerite DUPUIS married

François MOLLEUR-- Date: 6 April 1820 Place: L'Acadie, Lower Canada
François MOLLEUR was the child of François MOLLEUR and Archange DUBUC

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Children of François MOLLEUR and Marguerite DUPUIS:

Domithilde MOLLEUR (b.abt. 1823, Saint-Valentin, Lower Canada d. 1 April 1893, Saint-Valentin, Québec, Canada)
m. Albert LAMOUREUX 2 March 1840

Marcelline MOLLEUR (b.20 October 1824, L'Acadie, Lower Canada d. 6 July 1892, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada )
m. Salomon LAFAILLE 7 February 1844 in L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie)

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1801 Birth
10 December 1801
L'Acadie, Lower Canada

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 Marriage / Partner
Marguerite DUPUIS and François MOLLEUR 6 April 1820, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie)

She was 18 years old.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1824 - Portland cement is invented (Joseph Aspdin, England)

1824 Birth of Child
Marcelline MOLLEUR was born 20 October 1824, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie)

Marguerite was 22 years old.

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

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)

1844 Marriage of Child
Marcelline MOLLEUR married 7 February 1844, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie) to Salomon LAFAILLE

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.