Marie-Josephte-Seraphine POTHIER

(b. 17 February 1798 , Québec Province, Canada d. 16 May 1877 , Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada )

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Marie-Josephte-Seraphine POTHIER was born 17 February 1798 in Québec Province, Canada

Marie-Josephte-Seraphine POTHIER was the child of Louis POTHIER and Françoise MARCHAND and the grandchild of: (paternal) Louis POTHIER and Marie-Anne LEFEBVRE dite BELISLE (maternal) Louis-Joachim MARCHAND and Françoise ROY dite CHÂTELLERAULT

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

Marie-Josephte-Seraphine married Joseph SAINT-PIERRE 27 February 1821 in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Joseph SAINT-PIERRE was born 4 November 1792 in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers). Joseph died 8 March 1825 in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers). Joseph was the child of Joseph SAINT-PIERRE and Marie BLONDIN.

Marie-Josephte-Seraphine POTHIER died 16 May 1877 in Trois-Rivières, 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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Marie-Josephte-Seraphine POTHIER married

Joseph SAINT-PIERRE-- Date: 27 February 1821 Place: Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada
Joseph SAINT-PIERRE was the child of Joseph SAINT-PIERRE and Marie BLONDIN

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Children of Joseph SAINT-PIERRE and Marie-Josephte-Seraphine POTHIER:

Jean-Octave SAINT-PIERRE (b.abt. 1832, Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada d. 22 May 1916, Stanstead Plain, Quebec, Canada)
m. Sophie Alphée NOEL 30 August 1858

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1798 Birth
17 February 1798
Québec Province, Canada

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

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

1821 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Josephte-Seraphine POTHIER and Joseph SAINT-PIERRE 27 February 1821, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

She was 23 years old.

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

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

1825 Death of Spouse/Partner
Joseph SAINT-PIERRE died 8 March 1825, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

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)

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.