Josephte ROBERGE

(b. 30 September 1792 , Saint-Sulpice, Lower Canada d. 20 November 1881 , Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, Québec, Canada )

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Josephte ROBERGE was born 30 September 1792 in Saint-Sulpice, Lower Canada

Josephte ROBERGE was the child of Louis-Prisque ROBERGE and Josephte HAMEL and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptiste ROBERGE dit LACROIX and Louise-Agathe FROMENT (maternal) Jean HAMEL and Catherine VEGIARD dite LABONTÉ

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

Josephte married Joseph GERMAIN dit BELISLE 3 April 1815 in Saint-Jacques, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Joseph GERMAIN dit BELISLE was born 7 November 1786 in Saint-Cuthbert, Québec, Canada. Joseph was the child of François GERMAIN dit BELISLE and Charlotte PROVOST (PREVOST).

Josephte ROBERGE died 20 November 1881 in Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, 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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Josephte ROBERGE married

Joseph GERMAIN dit BELISLE-- Date: 3 April 1815 Place: Saint-Jacques, Lower Canada
Joseph GERMAIN dit BELISLE was the child of François GERMAIN dit BELISLE and Charlotte PROVOST (PREVOST)

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Children of Joseph GERMAIN dit BELISLE and Josephte ROBERGE:

Michel GERMAIN dit BELISLE (b.21 August 1831, Saint-Jacques, Lower Canada d. 21 December 1910, Penetaguishene, Ontario, Canada)
m. Marie-Anne LAPORTE dite ST-GEORGES 1862 in Saint-Norbert, Berthier, Québec, Canada

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1792 Birth
30 September 1792
Saint-Sulpice, Lower Canada

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

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

1815 Marriage / Partner
Josephte ROBERGE and Joseph GERMAIN dit BELISLE 3 April 1815, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan)

She was 22 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.

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

1831 Birth of Child
Michel GERMAIN dit BELISLE was born 21 August 1831, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan)

Josephte was 38 years old.

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)

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.