Madeleine LESSARD

(b. 5 April 1798 , Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Lower Canada d. 13 April 1876 , Saint-François-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Québec, Canada )

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Madeleine LESSARD was born 5 April 1798 in Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Lower Canada

Madeleine LESSARD was the child of Jean-Marie LESSARD and Marie-Louise RACINE and the grandchild of: (paternal) François-Xavier LESSARD and Marie-Madeleine MOREL (maternal) Michel RACINE and Geneviève GAGNON

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

Madeleine married Abraham TREMBLAY 29 July 1823 in Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Abraham TREMBLAY was born 13 September 1795 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Abraham died 27 December 1870 in Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Québec, Canada (Beaupre). Abraham was the child of René TREMBLAY and Marie-Anne MARTEL.

Madeleine LESSARD died 13 April 1876 in Saint-François-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, 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.

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Madeleine LESSARD married

Abraham TREMBLAY-- Date: 29 July 1823 Place: Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Lower Canada
Abraham TREMBLAY was the child of René TREMBLAY and Marie-Anne MARTEL

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Children of Abraham TREMBLAY and Madeleine LESSARD:

Seraphine TREMBLAY (b.27 February 1827, La Malbaie, Lower Canada d. 27 November 1904, Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Québec, Canada )

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1798 Birth
5 April 1798
Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Lower Canada

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

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

1823 Marriage / Partner
Madeleine LESSARD and Abraham TREMBLAY 29 July 1823, Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Québec, Canada (Beaupre)

She was 25 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)

1827 Birth of Child
Seraphine TREMBLAY was born 27 February 1827, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

Madeleine was 28 years old.

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

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.