Marie-Josephte POUPART

(b. 23 September 1791 , La Prairie, Lower Canada d. 15 July 1873 , La Prairie, Québec, Canada )

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Marie-Josephte POUPART was born 23 September 1791 in La Prairie, Lower Canada

Marie-Josephte POUPART was the child of Joseph POUPART and Marie-Josephe MONET and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph POUPART and Marie-Charlotte LAMARRE (maternal) François MONET and Josephte SURPRENANT

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Marie-Josephte married Toussaint LEGRAND 8 January 1810 in La Prairie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Toussaint LEGRAND was born 24 November 1790 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité). Toussaint died 6 December 1873 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité). Toussaint was the child of Jacques LEGRAND and Catherine LAMARRE.

Marie-Josephte POUPART died 15 July 1873 in La Prairie, 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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Marie-Josephte POUPART married

Toussaint LEGRAND-- Date: 8 January 1810 Place: La Prairie, Lower Canada
Toussaint LEGRAND was the child of Jacques LEGRAND and Catherine LAMARRE

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Children of Toussaint LEGRAND and Marie-Josephte POUPART:

Marie-Zoe LEGRAND (b.3 September 1829, La Prairie, Lower Canada d. 31 January 1891, La Prairie, Québec, Canada )
m. Edouard TREMBLAY 30 June 1846 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

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1791 Birth
23 September 1791
La Prairie, Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1810 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Josephte POUPART and Toussaint LEGRAND 8 January 1810, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

She was 18 years old.

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)

1829 Birth of Child
Marie-Zoe LEGRAND was born 3 September 1829, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

Marie-Josephte was 37 years old.

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)

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 Marriage of Child
Marie-Zoe LEGRAND married 30 June 1846, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité) to Edouard TREMBLAY

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)

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.