Antoine LEBOEUF dit BEAUSEIGLE

(b. 15 November 1801 , Châteauguay, Lower Canada d. 12 December 1881 , Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Québec, Canada )

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Antoine LEBOEUF dit BEAUSEIGLE was born 15 November 1801 in Châteauguay, Lower Canada

Antoine LEBOEUF dit BEAUSEIGLE was the child of Jean-Baptiste LEBOEUF and Marguerite ROY and the grandchild of: (paternal) Charles LEBOEUF and Marie-Josephte TABAULT (maternal) Michel ROY and Marie-Amable-Madeleine MOREL

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

Antoine married Marie-Jeanne MERCIER 7 January 1828 in Saint-Timothée, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Jeanne MERCIER was born 29 June 1806 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Marie-Jeanne was the child of Joseph-Gabriel MERCIER and Marie-Victoire TREMBLAY.

Antoine LEBOEUF dit BEAUSEIGLE died 12 December 1881 in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Québec, Canada .
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Occupation

Antoine LEBOEUF dit BEAUSEIGLE was a Cultivateur.
The farmer, cultivateur, or cultivator, was a person who cultivated and exploited the land in order to get a crop.

He may have been the proprietor of his own parcel(s) of land. He could, depending on the land size, have employed other agricultural workers. If he didn't own the land, he was called a tenant farmer.
Source: tfcq.ca

farmer

Source: Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts

Life as a Cultivateur in 18th Century New France: Tilling the Soil of History

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 LEBOEUF dit BEAUSEIGLE

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Antoine LEBOEUF dit BEAUSEIGLE married

Marie-Jeanne MERCIER-- Date: 7 January 1828 Place: Saint-Timothée, Lower Canada

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Marie-Jeanne MERCIER was the child of Joseph-Gabriel MERCIER and Marie-Victoire TREMBLAY

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Children of Antoine LEBOEUF dit BEAUSEIGLE and Marie-Jeanne MERCIER:

Eleonore LEBOEUF dite BEAUSEIGLE (b.16 February 1831, La Malbaie, Lower Canada d. , )
m. Jean-Eusebe TREMBLAY 16 February 1846 in Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay)

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1801 Birth
15 November 1801
Châteauguay, 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)

1828 Marriage / Partner
Antoine LEBOEUF dit BEAUSEIGLE and Marie-Jeanne MERCIER 7 January 1828, Saint-Timothée, Québec, Canada (Beauharnois)

He was 26 years old.

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

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1831 Birth of Child
Eleonore LEBOEUF dite BEAUSEIGLE was born 16 February 1831, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

Antoine was 29 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 Marriage of Child
Eleonore LEBOEUF dite BEAUSEIGLE married 16 February 1846, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay) to Jean-Eusebe 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.