Cecile SURPRENANT

(b. 1 October 1793 , La Prairie, Lower Canada d. 22 November 1872 , St-Isidore, Laprairie, Québec, Canada )

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Cecile SURPRENANT was born 1 October 1793 in La Prairie, Lower Canada

Cecile SURPRENANT was the child of Michel SURPRENANT and Marie-Renee GIBEAU and the grandchild of: (paternal) Michel SURPRENANT and Marguerite LONGTIN (maternal) Alexis GIBEAU and Madeleine BARBEAU dite BOISDORÉ

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

Cecile married Francois DECOSTE (DECOSSE) 25 November 1816 in Saint-Constant, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Francois DECOSTE (DECOSSE) was born 9 November 1784 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité). Francois died 17 August 1863 in St-Isidore, Laprairie, Québec Canada. Francois was the child of Jean-Baptiste COTE dit LAFLEUR DECOSTE and Therese POULIOT.

Cecile SURPRENANT died 22 November 1872 in St-Isidore, Laprairie, 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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Cecile SURPRENANT married

Francois DECOSTE (DECOSSE)-- Date: 25 November 1816 Place: Saint-Constant, Lower Canada
Francois DECOSTE (DECOSSE) was the child of Jean-Baptiste COTE dit LAFLEUR DECOSTE and Therese POULIOT

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Children of Francois DECOSTE (DECOSSE) and Cecile SURPRENANT:

Narcisse DECOSTE (DECOSSE) (b.18 October 1821, Châteauguay, Lower Canada d. 12 July 1891, Franklin Centre, Québec, Canada )
m. Salome MOISE 25 October 1841

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1793 Birth
1 October 1793
La Prairie, Lower Canada

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

1816 Marriage / Partner
Cecile SURPRENANT and Francois DECOSTE (DECOSSE) 25 November 1816, Saint-Constant, Québec, Canada

She was 23 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

1821 Birth of Child
Narcisse DECOSTE (DECOSSE) was born 18 October 1821, Châteauguay, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joachim-de-Chateauguay)

Cecile was 28 years old.

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)

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)

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

1863 Death of Spouse/Partner
Francois DECOSTE (DECOSSE) died 17 August 1863, St-Isidore, Laprairie, Québec Canada

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.