Mathilde ROBERT dite LAFONTAINE

(b. 21 August 1823 , Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Lower Canada d. 5 August 1882 , Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada )

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Mathilde ROBERT dite LAFONTAINE was born 21 August 1823 in Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Lower Canada

Mathilde ROBERT dite LAFONTAINE was the child of Joseph ROBERT and Marie-Desanges L'HOMME and the grandchild of: (paternal) Louis ROBERT dit LAFONTAINE and Marguerite CUSSON (maternal) Antoine L'HOMME and Desanges LAJEUNESSE

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Mathilde married Alexis-Amable ARCHAMBAULT 29 September 1840 in Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Alexis-Amable ARCHAMBAULT was born 13 December 1810 in La Présentation, Québec, Canada (La Presentation-de-la-Sainte-Vierge) . Alexis-Amable died 3 June 1877 in Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada. Alexis-Amable was the child of Louis ARCHAMBAULT and Marie-Josephte GIROUARD.

Mathilde ROBERT dite LAFONTAINE died 5 August 1882 in Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada.

photo/ portrait (above) from nosorigines.qc.ca

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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 Mathilde ROBERT dite LAFONTAINE

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Mathilde ROBERT dite LAFONTAINE married

Alexis-Amable ARCHAMBAULT-- Date: 29 September 1840 Place: Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Lower Canada
Alexis-Amable ARCHAMBAULT was the child of Louis ARCHAMBAULT and Marie-Josephte GIROUARD

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Children of Alexis-Amable ARCHAMBAULT and Mathilde ROBERT dite LAFONTAINE:

Joseph-Noel ARCHAMBAULT (b.25 December 1848, Marieville, Rouville, Canada East d. 20 June 1917, Montréal, Québec, Canada )
m. Marie-Louise CHAGNON dite LAROSE 10 August 1874 in Sprague, Connecticut, USA (Baltic) (Hanover) (Versailles)

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1823 Birth
21 August 1823
Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Lower Canada

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 ROBERT dite LAFONTAINE and Alexis-Amable ARCHAMBAULT 29 September 1840, Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Rouville)

She was 17 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)

1848 Birth of Child
Joseph-Noel ARCHAMBAULT was born 25 December 1848, Marieville, Rouville, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir)

Mathilde was 25 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)

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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1874 Marriage of Child
Joseph-Noel ARCHAMBAULT married 10 August 1874, Sprague, Connecticut, USA (Baltic) (Hanover) (Versailles) to Marie-Louise CHAGNON dite LAROSE

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.