Mathilde ROY

(b. 14 August 1817 , L'Acadie, Lower Canada d. 18 July 1878 , Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada )

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Mathilde ROY was born 14 August 1817 in L'Acadie, Lower Canada

Mathilde ROY was the child of Bonaventure ROY and Marguerite TREMBLAY and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jacques ROY and Marie-Elisabeth MAURICE dite LAFANTASIE (maternal) Joseph-Godefroy TREMBLAY and Marie-Marguerite BAILLARGEON

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

Mathilde married Isaac CAILLÉ dit BISCORNET 4 February 1840 in L'Acadie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Isaac CAILLÉ dit BISCORNET was born abt. 1811 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Isaac died 14 October 1898 in Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada. Isaac was the child of Jean-Baptiste CAILLE dit BISCORNET and Josephte SMITH.

Mathilde ROY died 18 July 1878 in Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, 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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Mathilde ROY married

Isaac CAILLÉ dit BISCORNET-- Date: 4 February 1840 Place: L'Acadie, Lower Canada
Isaac CAILLÉ dit BISCORNET was the child of Jean-Baptiste CAILLE dit BISCORNET and Josephte SMITH

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Children of Isaac CAILLÉ dit BISCORNET and Mathilde ROY:

Elisa BISCORNET (b.7 January 1857, Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Canada East d. , )

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1817 Birth
14 August 1817
L'Acadie, Lower Canada

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

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

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

1840 Marriage / Partner
Mathilde ROY and Isaac CAILLÉ dit BISCORNET 4 February 1840, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie)

She was 22 years old.

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.

1857 Birth of Child
Elisa BISCORNET was born 7 January 1857, Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada

Mathilde was 39 years old.

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.