Celeste ROY dite DESJARDINS

(b. 1 February 1798 , Kamouraska, Lower Canada d. 26 June 1892 , St-Denis, Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada )

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Celeste ROY dite DESJARDINS was born 1 February 1798 in Kamouraska, Lower Canada

Celeste ROY dite DESJARDINS was the child of Antoine ROY dit DESJARDINS and Marie-Louise GAGNON and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptiste ROY dit DESJARDINS and Marie-Catherine CORDEAU dite DESLAURIERS (maternal) Jean-Baptiste-Laurent GAGNON and Marie-Louise BOUCHER

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

Celeste married Joseph LANGLAIS 6 February 1815 in Kamouraska, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Joseph LANGLAIS was born 10 November 1788 in Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre). Joseph died 10 December 1875 in Saint-Denis-de-la-Bouteilllerie, Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada. Joseph was the child of Joseph LANGLAIS dit SERIEN and Marie-Anne MARTIN.

Celeste ROY dite DESJARDINS died 26 June 1892 in St-Denis, Kamouraska, Quebec, 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 Celeste ROY dite DESJARDINS

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Celeste ROY dite DESJARDINS married

Joseph LANGLAIS-- Date: 6 February 1815 Place: Kamouraska, Lower Canada
Joseph LANGLAIS was the child of Joseph LANGLAIS dit SERIEN and Marie-Anne MARTIN

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Children of Joseph LANGLAIS and Celeste ROY dite DESJARDINS:

François LANGLAIS (b.28 February 1834, Kamouraska, Lower Canada d. 30 December 1901, Trois-Pistoles, Québec, Canada )
m. Marie-Sophie ROY 17 June 1862

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1798 Birth
1 February 1798
Kamouraska, Lower Canada

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

1815 Marriage / Partner
Celeste ROY dite DESJARDINS and Joseph LANGLAIS 6 February 1815, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre)

She was 17 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

1834 Birth of Child
François LANGLAIS was born 28 February 1834, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre)

Celeste was 36 years old.

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.