Marie-Modeste ROY dite DESJARDINS

(b. 11 February 1807 , Kamouraska, Lower Canada d. 27 June 1872 , Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Québec, Canada )

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Marie-Modeste ROY dite DESJARDINS was born 11 February 1807 in Kamouraska, Lower Canada

Marie-Modeste ROY dite DESJARDINS was the child of Joseph-Amable ROY dit DESJARDINS and Modeste PELLETIER and the grandchild of: (paternal) Alexandre ROY dit DESJARDINS and Marie-Josephe PLOURDE (maternal) Joseph PELLETIER and Catherine SIROIS dite DUPLESSIS

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Marie-Modeste married Charles BOUCHARD 21 October 1822 in Kamouraska, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Charles BOUCHARD was born 26 February 1799 in Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre). Charles died 21 December 1841 in Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Québec, Canada. Charles was the child of Joseph-Prisque BOUCHARD and Marie-Reine DEGENNES dite BOURGELAS.

Marie-Modeste ROY dite DESJARDINS died 27 June 1872 in Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, 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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Marie-Modeste ROY dite DESJARDINS married

Charles BOUCHARD-- Date: 21 October 1822 Place: Kamouraska, Lower Canada
Charles BOUCHARD was the child of Joseph-Prisque BOUCHARD and Marie-Reine DEGENNES dite BOURGELAS

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Children of Charles BOUCHARD and Marie-Modeste ROY dite DESJARDINS:

Olive BOUCHARD (b.30 June 1833, Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Lower Canada d. 2 June 1915, Sainte-Hélène-de-Kamouraska, Québec, Canada)
m. Frederic PELLETIER 7 November 1854 in Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Québec, Canada

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1807 Birth
11 February 1807
Kamouraska, Lower Canada

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

1822 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Modeste ROY dite DESJARDINS and Charles BOUCHARD 21 October 1822, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre)

She was 15 years old.

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

1833 Birth of Child
Olive BOUCHARD was born 30 June 1833, Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Québec, Canada

Marie-Modeste was 26 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

1841 Death of Spouse/Partner
Charles BOUCHARD died 21 December 1841, Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Québec, 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.

1854 Marriage of Child
Olive BOUCHARD married 7 November 1854, Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Québec, Canada to Frederic PELLETIER

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.