Joseph TREMBLAY

(b. 20 September 1813 , Les Éboulements, Lower Canada d. 9 September 1881 , Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada )

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Joseph TREMBLAY was born 20 September 1813 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Joseph TREMBLAY was the child of Joseph TREMBLAY and Constance CLAVEAU and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph-Marie TREMBLAY and Josephte-Esther SAVARD (maternal) Jean-Baptiste CLAVEAU and Marie BOUCHARD

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

Joseph married Petronille TREMBLAY 15 January 1839 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 3 children.
Petronille TREMBLAY was born 18 December 1820 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Petronille died 4 September 1855 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Petronille was the child of Isaac TREMBLAY and Agnès TREMBLAY.

Joseph married (2) Seraphine GAUTHIER (GONTHIER) 27 July 1857 in Les Éboulements, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Seraphine GAUTHIER (GONTHIER) was born abt. 1818 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Seraphine was the child of Abraham-Constantin GONTHIER and Geneviève BOUCHER.

Joseph TREMBLAY died 9 September 1881 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada .
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Family and Children of Joseph TREMBLAY

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Joseph TREMBLAY married

Petronille TREMBLAY-- Date: 15 January 1839 Place: Les Éboulements, Lower Canada
Petronille TREMBLAY was the child of Isaac TREMBLAY and Agnès TREMBLAY

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Children of Joseph TREMBLAY and Petronille TREMBLAY:

Adelaide TREMBLAY (b.23 September 1841, Les Éboulements, Canada East d. 3 December 1875, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada )

Leocadie TREMBLAY (b.14 February 1849, Les Éboulements, Canada East d. 2 April 1905, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada )

Georges TREMBLAY (b.9 August 1854, Les Éboulements, Canada East d. , )
m. Marie TREMBLAY 12 February 1878 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Joseph TREMBLAY married

Seraphine GAUTHIER (GONTHIER)-- Date: 27 July 1857 Place: Les Éboulements, Canada East
Seraphine GAUTHIER (GONTHIER) was the child of Abraham-Constantin GONTHIER and Geneviève BOUCHER

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Children of Joseph TREMBLAY and Seraphine GAUTHIER (GONTHIER):

Georgiana TREMBLAY (b.10 May 1864, Québec, Canada East d. 31 January 1953, St-Grégoire-de-Montmorency, Quebec, Canada)

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1813 Birth
20 September 1813
Les Éboulements, 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

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

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)

1839 Marriage / Partner
Joseph TREMBLAY and Petronille TREMBLAY 15 January 1839, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

He was 25 years old.

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 Birth of Child
Adelaide TREMBLAY was born 23 September 1841, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Joseph was 28 years old.

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)

1849 Birth of Child
Leocadie TREMBLAY was born 14 February 1849, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Joseph was 35 years old.

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1854 Birth of Child
Georges TREMBLAY was born 9 August 1854, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Joseph was 40 years old.

1855 Death of Spouse/Partner
Petronille TREMBLAY died 4 September 1855, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1857 - Ottawa chosen by Queen Victoria as the capital of the united colony of Canada.

1857 Marriage / Partner
Joseph TREMBLAY and Seraphine GAUTHIER (GONTHIER) 27 July 1857, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

He was 43 years old.

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

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1864 Birth of Child
Georgiana TREMBLAY was born 10 May 1864, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

Joseph was 50 years old.

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

1875 Death of Child
Adelaide TREMBLAY died 3 December 1875, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Joseph was 62 years old.

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 Marriage of Child
Georges TREMBLAY married 12 February 1878, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements) to Marie TREMBLAY

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

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

1881 Death
9 September 1881
Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada

He died at the age of 68.

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