Tharsille-Anastasie PEPIN dite LACHANCE

(b. 17 August 1794 , Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada d. 18 October 1873 , Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada )

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Tharsille-Anastasie PEPIN dite LACHANCE was born 17 August 1794 in Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada

Tharsille-Anastasie PEPIN dite LACHANCE was the child of Louis PEPIN and Louise HOULE dite GERVAIS and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph PEPIN and Marie-Louise BOULAY (maternal) Louis HOUDE and Marie-Louise LEFEBVRE dite DESCOTEAUX

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

Tharsille-Anastasie married Albert DROWSE 2 June 1824 in Drummondville, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Albert DROWSE was born abt. 1778 in Poland. Albert died 6 November 1853 in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.

Tharsille-Anastasie PEPIN dite LACHANCE died 18 October 1873 in Sherbrooke, 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.

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 Tharsille-Anastasie PEPIN dite LACHANCE

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Tharsille-Anastasie PEPIN dite LACHANCE married

Albert DROWSE-- Date: 2 June 1824 Place: Drummondville, Lower Canada

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Children of Albert DROWSE and Tharsille-Anastasie PEPIN dite LACHANCE:

Angele DROWSE (b.6 October 1826, Drummondville, Lower Canada d. 15 May 1913, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada)
m. Louis CAYA 16 April 1849 in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

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1794 Birth
17 August 1794
Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower 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

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

1824 Marriage / Partner
Tharsille-Anastasie PEPIN dite LACHANCE and Albert DROWSE 2 June 1824, Drummondville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Frédéric-de-Drummondville)

She was 29 years old.

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

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1826 Birth of Child
Angele DROWSE was born 6 October 1826, Drummondville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Frédéric-de-Drummondville)

Tharsille-Anastasie was 32 years old.

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)

1849 Marriage of Child
Angele DROWSE married 16 April 1849, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada to Louis CAYA

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1853 Death of Spouse/Partner
Albert DROWSE died 6 November 1853, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

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.