Antoine ST-GELAIS dit BRADETTE

(b. 18 January 1797 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada d. 7 October 1880 , St-Urbain, Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada )

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Antoine ST-GELAIS dit BRADETTE was born 18 January 1797 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Antoine ST-GELAIS dit BRADETTE was the child of Jean-Baptitse BRADETTE dit ST-GELAIS and Marie-Anne GIRARD and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-François BRADETTE dit SINGELAIS and Suzanne DUCHESNE dite LAPIERRE (maternal) Pierre-Louis GIRARD and Emerentienne BOUCHARD

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

Antoine married Agnes TREMBLAY 2 February 1818 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 5 children.
Agnes TREMBLAY was born 23 December 1796 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Agnes died 22 May 1858 in St-Urbain, Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada. Agnes was the child of Urbain TREMBLAY and Dorothee GONTHIER.

Antoine ST-GELAIS dit BRADETTE died 7 October 1880 in St-Urbain, Charlevoix, Quebec, 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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Family and Children of Antoine ST-GELAIS dit BRADETTE

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Antoine ST-GELAIS dit BRADETTE married

Agnes TREMBLAY-- Date: 2 February 1818 Place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

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Agnes TREMBLAY was the child of Urbain TREMBLAY and Dorothee GONTHIER

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Children of Antoine ST-GELAIS dit BRADETTE and Agnes TREMBLAY:

Zephirin BRADETTE (b.22 December 1824, Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada d. 18 December 1897, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada)

Prime BRADETTE dit ST-GELAIS (b.18 August 1828, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Lower Canada d. 1 March 1917, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada)

Zoe BRADETTE dite ST-GELAIS (b.11 July 1832, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Lower Canada d. 9 September 1913, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada)

Rachel BRADETTE dite ST-GELAIS (b.abt. 1838, , Québec Province, Canada d. 10 July 1896, Métabetchouan, Quebec, Canada)

Onesime BRADETTE dit ST-GELAIS (b.21 July 1840, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Lower Canada d. , )

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1797 Birth
18 January 1797
Baie-Saint-Paul, 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.

1818 Marriage / Partner
Antoine ST-GELAIS dit BRADETTE and Agnes TREMBLAY 2 February 1818, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

He was 21 years old.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1824 - Portland cement is invented (Joseph Aspdin, England)

1824 Birth of Child
Zephirin BRADETTE was born 22 December 1824, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Antoine was 27 years old.

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1828 Birth of Child
Prime BRADETTE dit ST-GELAIS was born 18 August 1828, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada

Antoine was 31 years old.

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1832 Birth of Child
Zoe BRADETTE dite ST-GELAIS was born 11 July 1832, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada

Antoine was 35 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

1840 Birth of Child
Onesime BRADETTE dit ST-GELAIS was born 21 July 1840, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada

Antoine was 43 years old.

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

1858 Death of Spouse/Partner
Agnes TREMBLAY died 22 May 1858, St-Urbain, Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada

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.