Marie LATOUR dite BALLARD

(b. 19 March 1799 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada d. 7 September 1869 , L'Anse-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada )

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Marie LATOUR dite BALLARD was born 19 March 1799 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Marie LATOUR dite BALLARD was the child of Charles LATOUR dit BALLARD and Modeste LABRANCHE dite LAFOREST and the grandchild of: (maternal) Etienne LEVIEUX and Marie-Catherine-Gertrude LAFOREST

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

Marie married Francois TREMBLAY 4 January 1825 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 3 children.
Francois TREMBLAY was born 9 October 1799 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Francois was the child of Chrysostome TREMBLAY and Emerance LAJOIE.

Marie LATOUR dite BALLARD died 7 September 1869 in L'Anse-Saint-Jean, 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 LATOUR dite BALLARD married

Francois TREMBLAY-- Date: 4 January 1825 Place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada
Francois TREMBLAY was the child of Chrysostome TREMBLAY and Emerance LAJOIE

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Children of Francois TREMBLAY and Marie LATOUR dite BALLARD:

Eusebe TREMBLAY (b.abt. 1826, , Québec Province, Canada d. 4 December 1905, St-Paul-du-Nord, Canada)
m. Arthemise-Hermine BOUCHARD 5 February 1850 in Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada

Adelaide TREMBLAY (b.3 September 1829, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Lower Canada d. , )

Lucrete TREMBLAY (b.27 April 1835, Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada d. 10 May 1915, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada )
m. Martin TREMBLAY 16 April 1855 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

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1799 Birth
19 March 1799
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.

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)

1825 Marriage / Partner
Marie LATOUR dite BALLARD and Francois TREMBLAY 4 January 1825, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

She was 25 years old.

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)

1829 Birth of Child
Adelaide TREMBLAY was born 3 September 1829, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada

Marie was 30 years old.

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1835 Birth of Child
Lucrete TREMBLAY was born 27 April 1835, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Marie was 36 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

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)

1850 Marriage of Child
Eusebe TREMBLAY married 5 February 1850, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada to Arthemise-Hermine BOUCHARD

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

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

1855 Marriage of Child
Lucrete TREMBLAY married 16 April 1855, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements) to Martin TREMBLAY

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.