Rosalie SENECAL

(b. 25 January 1816 , La Prairie, Lower Canada d. 22 April 1880 , Saint-Valentin, Québec, Canada )

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Rosalie SENECAL was born 25 January 1816 in La Prairie, Lower Canada

Rosalie SENECAL was the child of Jean SENECAL and Catherine PERRIER and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptiste SENÉCAL and Marie-Catherine BABEU (maternal) Jean PERRIER dit OLIVIER and Marie-Catherine POISSANT

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

Rosalie married Louis TREMBLAY 26 November 1839 in Saint-Valentin, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 4 children.
Louis TREMBLAY was born 10 July 1810 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Louis died 21 March 1890 in Saint-Valentin, Québec, Canada. Louis was the child of Denis TREMBLAY and Marguerite ALLARD.

Rosalie SENECAL died 22 April 1880 in Saint-Valentin, 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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Family and Children of Rosalie SENECAL

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Rosalie SENECAL married

Louis TREMBLAY-- Date: 26 November 1839 Place: Saint-Valentin, Lower Canada
Louis TREMBLAY was the child of Denis TREMBLAY and Marguerite ALLARD

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Children of Louis TREMBLAY and Rosalie SENECAL:

Onesime TREMBLAY (b.25 May 1842, Saint-Valentin, Canada East d. 4 May 1874, Napierville, Québec, Canada )
m. Damase LEDUC 26 November 1861 in Saint-Valentin, Québec, Canada

Exurie TREMBLAY (b.abt. 1847, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )
m. Marie-Onesime BEAUDOIN 17 September 1872 in Saint-Sébastien, Iberville, Québec, Canada (St-Sebastien)

Emma TREMBLAY (b.abt. 1851, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )

Avila TREMBLAY (b.25 July 1855, Saint-Valentin, Canada East d. 26 April 1914, Saint-Paul-de-l'Ile-aux-Noix, Canada)

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1816 Birth
25 January 1816
La Prairie, 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
Rosalie SENECAL and Louis TREMBLAY 26 November 1839, Saint-Valentin, Québec, Canada

She was 23 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

1842 Birth of Child
Onesime TREMBLAY was born 25 May 1842, Saint-Valentin, Québec, Canada

Rosalie was 26 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)

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

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

1855 Birth of Child
Avila TREMBLAY was born 25 July 1855, Saint-Valentin, Québec, Canada

Rosalie was 39 years old.

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

1861 Marriage of Child
Onesime TREMBLAY married 26 November 1861, Saint-Valentin, Québec, Canada to Damase LEDUC

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.

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.

1872 Marriage of Child
Exurie TREMBLAY married 17 September 1872, Saint-Sébastien, Iberville, Québec, Canada (St-Sebastien) to Marie-Onesime BEAUDOIN

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada