Marie-Louise PETIT

(b. 6 November 1793 , L'Isle-Verte, Lower Canada d. 27 April 1874 , St-Anaclet, Canada )

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Marie-Louise PETIT was born 6 November 1793 in L'Isle-Verte, Lower Canada

Marie-Louise PETIT was the child of Antoine PETIT and Genevieve DANGEUGER and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean PETIT dit LE VENT and Marie CARESTE (maternal) Jean-Baptiste DANGEUGER dit LECHASSEUR and Therese THERRIEN

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

Marie-Louise married Michel OUELLET 22 November 1812 in Saint-André, Kamouraska, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Michel OUELLET was born 4 January 1787 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, Canada. Michel died 22 April 1876 in St-Anaclet-de-Lessard, Canada. Michel was the child of Michel OUELLET and Marie-Madeleine SIMARD.

Marie-Louise PETIT died 27 April 1874 in St-Anaclet, 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-Louise PETIT married

Michel OUELLET-- Date: 22 November 1812 Place: Saint-André, Kamouraska, Lower Canada
Michel OUELLET was the child of Michel OUELLET and Marie-Madeleine SIMARD

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Children of Michel OUELLET and Marie-Louise PETIT:

Michel OUELLET (b.10 January 1814, Cacouna, Lower Canada d. 19 October 1857, St-Octave-de-Métis, Canada)
m. Charlotte SAVARD 12 January 1836 in Trois-Pistoles, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-des-Neiges)

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1793 Birth
6 November 1793
L'Isle-Verte, Lower Canada

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

1812 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Louise PETIT and Michel OUELLET 22 November 1812, Saint-André, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (St-Andre)

She was 19 years old.

1814 Birth of Child
Michel OUELLET was born 10 January 1814, Cacouna, Québec, Canada (Saint-Georges-de-Cacouna)

Marie-Louise was 20 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)

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1836 Marriage of Child
Michel OUELLET married 12 January 1836, Trois-Pistoles, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-des-Neiges) to Charlotte SAVARD

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.

1857 Death of Child
Michel OUELLET died 19 October 1857, St-Octave-de-Métis, Canada

Marie-Louise was 63 years old.

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.