Jean-Baptiste GEOFFRION

(b. 2 February 1781 , Varennes, Province of Québec, Canada d. 2 March 1868 , Verchères, Québec, Canada )

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Jean-Baptiste GEOFFRION was born 2 February 1781 in Varennes, Province of Québec, Canada

Jean-Baptiste GEOFFRION was the child of Gabriel GEOFFRION and Marie-Madeleine DALPE dite PARISEAU and the grandchild of: (paternal) Gabriel GEOFFRION (JOFFRION) dit ST-JEAN and Marguerite FONTAINE dite BIENVENUE (maternal) Gabriel DALPE dit PARISEAU and Geneviève SENECAL

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

Jean-Baptiste married Josephte CREVIER dite DUVERNAY 6 October 1806 in Verchères, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Josephte CREVIER dite DUVERNAY was born 19 March 1787 in Verchères, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-Vercheres). Josephte was the child of Louis-Marie CREVIER dit DUVERNAY and Victoire BENOIT dite LIVERNOIS.

Jean-Baptiste GEOFFRION died 2 March 1868 in Verchères, 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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Jean-Baptiste GEOFFRION married

Josephte CREVIER dite DUVERNAY-- Date: 6 October 1806 Place: Verchères, Lower Canada
Josephte CREVIER dite DUVERNAY was the child of Louis-Marie CREVIER dit DUVERNAY and Victoire BENOIT dite LIVERNOIS

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Children:

Rosalie Geoffrion 1809-1881

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Children of Jean-Baptiste GEOFFRION and Josephte CREVIER dite DUVERNAY:

Judith GEOFFRION (b.abt. 1810, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )
m. André BROUSSEAU dit LAFLEUR 3 February 1829 in Verchères, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-Vercheres)

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1781 Birth
2 February 1781
Varennes, Province of Québec, Canada

1784 - The bifocal lens is invented (Benjamin Franklin, United States)

The oil lamp is invented (Aimé Argand, Switzerland)

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

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

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

1806 Marriage / Partner
Jean-Baptiste GEOFFRION and Josephte CREVIER dite DUVERNAY 6 October 1806, Verchères, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-Vercheres)

He was 25 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 Marriage of Child
Judith GEOFFRION married 3 February 1829, Verchères, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-Xavier-de-Vercheres) to André BROUSSEAU dit LAFLEUR

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

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.