Louis LAVALLEE

(b. 7 August 1785 , Chambly, Province of Québec, Canada d. 17 January 1874 , Iberville, Québec, Canada )

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

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

Louis LAVALLEE was born 7 August 1785 in Chambly, Province of Québec, Canada

Louis LAVALLEE was the child of Jean-Baptiste PAQUET dit LAVALLÉE and Marie-Madeleine CHAUSSÉ SIMINCE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-François PAQUET dit LAVALLÉE and Madeleine COURAULT dite COULON (maternal) Joseph CHAUSSE MATELOT SIMENCE and Marie-Anne POUTRE dite LAVIGNE

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

Louis married Charlotte PAQUET 11 February 1805 in Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Charlotte PAQUET was born 3 February 1778 in Chambly, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Chambly). Charlotte was the child of Joseph-Marie PAQUET and Marie-Ursule VIGEANT dite TAUPIER.

Louis LAVALLEE died 17 January 1874 in Iberville, Québec, Canada .
Details of the family tree of Louis 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.

A Glimpse into the Everyday Life of a Québécois Man in the Mid-1800s

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

Family and Children of Louis LAVALLEE

[Hide/Show]

Louis LAVALLEE married

Charlotte PAQUET-- Date: 11 February 1805 Place: Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada

See marriage record for Louis LAVALLEE and Charlotte PAQUET
Charlotte PAQUET was the child of Joseph-Marie PAQUET and Marie-Ursule VIGEANT dite TAUPIER

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

Children of Louis LAVALLEE and Charlotte PAQUET:

Marie Madeline LAVALLEE (b.abt. 1811, , Québec Province, Canada d. 1 April 1899, Eldorado, Wisconsin, USA)
m. Joseph GOYETTE 22 February 1830 in Iberville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Athanase-de-Bleury)

Jean-Baptiste LAVALLEE (b.11 January 1813, Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada d. 9 April 1883, Iberville, Québec, Canada )
m. Adelaide FOURNIER 26 October 1830 in Iberville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Athanase-de-Bleury)

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

[Hide/Show]

Discovering the Ancestry of Louis LAVALLEE: Events, Photos & Historical Records

1785 Birth
7 August 1785
Chambly, 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)

1805 Marriage / Partner
Louis LAVALLEE and Charlotte PAQUET 11 February 1805, Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada (Pointe-Olivier)

He was 19 years old.

1813 Birth of Child
Jean-Baptiste LAVALLEE was born 11 January 1813, Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada (Pointe-Olivier)

Louis was 27 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 Marriage of Child
Marie Madeline LAVALLEE married 22 February 1830, Iberville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Athanase-de-Bleury) to Joseph GOYETTE

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1830 Marriage of Child
Jean-Baptiste LAVALLEE married 26 October 1830, Iberville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Athanase-de-Bleury) to Adelaide FOURNIER

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.