Marguerite LEFEBVRE

(b. 7 February 1806 , Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada d. 19 February 1892 , Drummondville, Québec, Canada )

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Marguerite LEFEBVRE was born 7 February 1806 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada

Marguerite LEFEBVRE was the child of Joseph LEFEBVRE dit DESCÔTEAUX and Josephte HOUDE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Francois LEFEBVRE dit DESCOTEAUX and Marie-Amable PERRON (maternal) Jean-Baptiste HOUDE and Marie-Josephte HAMEL

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Marguerite married Hyacinthe COURCHESNE 14 February 1831 in Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 7 children.
Hyacinthe COURCHESNE was born 4 December 1808 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre). Hyacinthe died 20 May 1896 in Drummondville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Frédéric-de-Drummondville). Hyacinthe was the child of Joseph COURCHESNE and Marie-Catherine-Antoinette CAYA.

Marguerite LEFEBVRE died 19 February 1892 in Drummondville, 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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Marguerite LEFEBVRE married

Hyacinthe COURCHESNE-- Date: 14 February 1831 Place: Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada
Hyacinthe COURCHESNE was the child of Joseph COURCHESNE and Marie-Catherine-Antoinette CAYA

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Children of Hyacinthe COURCHESNE and Marguerite LEFEBVRE:

Juliette (Julie) COURCHESNE (b.16 September 1834, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada d. , )

Agnès COURCHESNE (b.3 June 1835, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada d. , )

Sophie COURCHESNE (b.12 April 1838, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada d. 23 February 1900, Drummondville, Québec, Canada )

Louis COURCHESNE (b.23 March 1840, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada d. 5 August 1909, Weedon, Wolfe, Québec, Canada)

Eusèbe COURCHESNE (b.20 February 1842, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Canada East d. 15 November 1938, Drummondville, Québec, Canada )
m. Rosalie CUSSON 24 April 1866 in Drummondville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Frédéric-de-Drummondville)

Marie COURCHESNE (b.1 October 1844, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Canada East d. 10 November 1914, Drummondville, Québec, Canada )

Virginia COURCHESNE (b.30 April 1847, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Canada East d. 28 August 1848, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Canada East )

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1806 Birth
7 February 1806
Baie-du-Fèbvre, 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 - 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

1831 Marriage / Partner
Marguerite LEFEBVRE and Hyacinthe COURCHESNE 14 February 1831, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

She was 25 years old.

1834 Birth of Child
Juliette (Julie) COURCHESNE was born 16 September 1834, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Marguerite was 28 years old.

1835 Birth of Child
Agnès COURCHESNE was born 3 June 1835, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Marguerite was 29 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

1838 Birth of Child
Sophie COURCHESNE was born 12 April 1838, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Marguerite was 32 years old.

1839 - February 24 - Steam shovel patented by William Smith Otis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1840 to 1860s - French-Canadian emigration to the United States

1840 Birth of Child
Louis COURCHESNE was born 23 March 1840, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Marguerite was 34 years old.

1841 - February 11 – Act of Union - The two colonies of The Canadas are merged into the United Province of Canada

1842 Birth of Child
Eusèbe COURCHESNE was born 20 February 1842, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Marguerite was 36 years old.

1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1844 Birth of Child
Marie COURCHESNE was born 1 October 1844, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Marguerite was 38 years old.

1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1847 Birth of Child
Virginia COURCHESNE was born 30 April 1847, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Marguerite was 41 years old.

1848 Death of Child
Virginia COURCHESNE died 28 August 1848, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Marguerite was 42 years old.

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)

1866 Marriage of Child
Eusèbe COURCHESNE married 24 April 1866, Drummondville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Frédéric-de-Drummondville) to Rosalie CUSSON

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.