Marie-Celeste PARADIS

(b. 30 July 1842 , Saint-André, Kamouraska, Canada East d. 28 February 1902 , Normandin, Maria-Chapdelaine, Québec, Canada )

Am I Your Ancestor?
PARADIS Family Tree – Connecting the Past to the Present!

What started out as our family is now your’s too!

Marie-Celeste PARADIS was born 30 July 1842 in Saint-André, Kamouraska, Canada East

Marie-Celeste PARADIS was the child of Jean-Baptiste PARADIS and Marie-Anastasie PARADIS and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-François PARADIS and Salome VAILLANCOURT (maternal) Paul-Isaac PARADIS and Esther-Anastasie LEBEL

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

Marie-Celeste married Godefroy DESCHENES 6 July 1863 in Hébertville, Lac-Saint-Jean, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Godefroy DESCHENES was born 11 March 1835 in Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre). Godefroy died 19 October 1884 in St-Louis-de-Gonzague, Les Etchemins, Quebec, Canada. Godefroy was the child of Etienne MIVILLE dit DESCHÊNES and Olive LEVESQUE.

Marie-Celeste PARADIS died 28 February 1902 in Normandin, Maria-Chapdelaine, Québec, Canada.
Details of the family tree of Marie-Celeste appear below.

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.

The Definitive Guide for Researching Your French-Canadian Ancestors in 2025

Family and Children of Marie-Celeste PARADIS

[Hide/Show]

Marie-Celeste PARADIS married

Godefroy DESCHENES-- Date: 6 July 1863 Place: Hébertville, Lac-Saint-Jean, Canada East
Godefroy DESCHENES was the child of Etienne MIVILLE dit DESCHÊNES and Olive LEVESQUE

Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec

Children of Godefroy DESCHENES and Marie-Celeste PARADIS:

Claudia-Victoria DESCHENES (b.abt. 1875, , Québec Province, Canada d. 1 May 1963, Hébertville, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada )
m. Joseph HUDON 16 August 1892 in Hébertville, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada (Hebertville) (Hébertville-Station) (Labarre)

Share the History, Life Events, and Stories of Marie-Celeste PARADIS
(Add details like birth, baptism, census records, military service, obituary, personal achievements, and more.)

[Hide/Show]

Discovering the Ancestry of Marie-Celeste PARADIS: Events, Photos & Historical Records

1842 Birth
30 July 1842
Saint-André, Kamouraska, Canada East

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.

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1863 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Celeste PARADIS and Godefroy DESCHENES 6 July 1863, Hébertville, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada (Hebertville) (Hébertville-Station) (Labarre)

She was 20 years old.

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

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

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1884 Death of Spouse/Partner
Godefroy DESCHENES died 19 October 1884, St-Louis-de-Gonzague, Les Etchemins, Quebec, Canada

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 Marriage of Child
Claudia-Victoria DESCHENES married 16 August 1892, Hébertville, Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada (Hebertville) (Hébertville-Station) (Labarre) to Joseph HUDON

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1894 - December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - May 1 - Charles Tupper becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - July 11 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1897 - Aspirin is invented (Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), Germany)

1901 - King Camp Gillette and William Emery Nickerson invented the world's first disposable razor blade in 1901. (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)

1901 - January 22 - Edward VII becomes King of England