Hippolyte AUDET dit LAPOINTE

(b. 11 September 1817 , Les Éboulements, Lower Canada d. 1 August 1880 , Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada )

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Hippolyte AUDET dit LAPOINTE was born 11 September 1817 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Hippolyte AUDET dit LAPOINTE was the child of Boniface AUDET and Françoise RATTÉ and the grandchild of: (paternal) Barthelemy AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Marie-Procule TREMBLAY (maternal) Basile RATTÉ (RATE) and Marie-Anne SIMARD

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

Hippolyte married Seraphine BOUCHARD 11 February 1840 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Seraphine BOUCHARD was born 2 March 1823 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Seraphine died 13 March 1874 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Seraphine was the child of Louis BOUCHARD and Geneviève TREMBLAY.

Hippolyte AUDET dit LAPOINTE died 1 August 1880 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada .
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Occupation

Hippolyte AUDET dit LAPOINTE 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

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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.

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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Hippolyte AUDET dit LAPOINTE married

Seraphine BOUCHARD-- Date: 11 February 1840 Place: Les Éboulements, Lower Canada
Seraphine BOUCHARD was the child of Louis BOUCHARD and Geneviève TREMBLAY

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Children of Hippolyte AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Seraphine BOUCHARD:

Marie AUDET (b.4 August 1843, Les Éboulements, Canada East d. 28 May 1888, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada )
m. Jules TREMBLAY 16 February 1863 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

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1817 Birth
11 September 1817
Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

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)

1840 to 1860s - French-Canadian emigration to the United States

1840 Marriage / Partner
Hippolyte AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Seraphine BOUCHARD 11 February 1840, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

He was 22 years old.

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)

1843 Birth of Child
Marie AUDET was born 4 August 1843, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

Hippolyte was 25 years old.

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 Marriage of Child
Marie AUDET married 16 February 1863, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements) to Jules TREMBLAY

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.