Adele MORAIS

(b. 22 March 1808 , Saint-Léon-le-Grand, Maskinongé, Lower Canada d. 19 October 1876 , La Malbaie, Québec, Canada )

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Adele MORAIS was born 22 March 1808 in Saint-Léon-le-Grand, Maskinongé, Lower Canada

Adele MORAIS was the child of Francois MORAIS and Genevieve DENIS and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-François MORAIS and Ursule PLOURDE (maternal) Jean-Baptiste JEAN dit DENIS and Geneviève LAVOIE

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

Adele married Joseph TREMBLAY 29 December 1836 in Québec, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Joseph TREMBLAY was born 18 March 1804 in Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres). Joseph died 19 September 1865 in La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic). Joseph was the child of Louis TREMBLAY and Charlotte DESGAGNES.

Adele MORAIS died 19 October 1876 in La Malbaie, 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.

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Adele MORAIS married

Joseph TREMBLAY-- Date: 29 December 1836 Place: Québec, Lower Canada
Joseph TREMBLAY was the child of Louis TREMBLAY and Charlotte DESGAGNES

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Children of Joseph TREMBLAY and Adele MORAIS:

Victoria TREMBLAY (b.2 February 1846, Saint-André, Kamouraska, Canada East d. 8 September 1903, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada )

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1808 Birth
22 March 1808
Saint-Léon-le-Grand, Maskinongé, 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 Marriage / Partner
Adele MORAIS and Joseph TREMBLAY 29 December 1836, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

She was 28 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)

1846 Birth of Child
Victoria TREMBLAY was born 2 February 1846, Saint-André, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (St-Andre)

Adele was 37 years old.

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)

1865 Death of Spouse/Partner
Joseph TREMBLAY died 19 September 1865, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

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.