Marie-Françoise GAUDREAU

(b. 22 November 1785 , Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu, Province of Québec, Canada d. 10 June 1875 , Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada )

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Marie-Françoise GAUDREAU was born 22 November 1785 in Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu, Province of Québec, Canada

Marie-Françoise GAUDREAU was the child of François GAUDREAU and Françoise FORGET and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph GAUDREAU and Ursule CHOUINARD (maternal) Claude FORGET and Marie-Anne MEUNIER

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

Marie-Françoise married Pierre MAGNAN 26 February 1810 in Saint-Ours, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Pierre MAGNAN was born abt. 1786 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Pierre died 21 November 1844 in Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception). Pierre was the child of Charles MAGNAN and Marie-Anne LECLERC dite LAFRENAYE.

Marie-Françoise GAUDREAU died 10 June 1875 in Saint-Ours, 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-Françoise GAUDREAU married

Pierre MAGNAN-- Date: 26 February 1810 Place: Saint-Ours, Lower Canada
Pierre MAGNAN was the child of Charles MAGNAN and Marie-Anne LECLERC dite LAFRENAYE

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Children of Pierre MAGNAN and Marie-Françoise GAUDREAU:

Eleonore MAGNAN (b.4 July 1819, Saint-Ours, Lower Canada d. 11 August 1868, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada )
m. Théotyme MARCHESSAULT 23 November 1846 in Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception)

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1785 Birth
22 November 1785
Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu, Province of Québec, Canada

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

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

1810 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Françoise GAUDREAU and Pierre MAGNAN 26 February 1810, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception)

She was 24 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.

1819 Birth of Child
Eleonore MAGNAN was born 4 July 1819, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception)

Marie-Françoise was 33 years old.

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

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 Death of Spouse/Partner
Pierre MAGNAN died 21 November 1844, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception)

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

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1846 Marriage of Child
Eleonore MAGNAN married 23 November 1846, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception) to Théotyme MARCHESSAULT

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.