Rosalie DOCQUE dite LAVIOLETTE

(b. 12 July 1826 , Montebello, Lower Canada d. 11 May 1906 , Rockland, Ontario, Canada )

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Rosalie DOCQUE dite LAVIOLETTE was born 12 July 1826 in Montebello, Lower Canada

Rosalie DOCQUE dite LAVIOLETTE was the child of Joseph DOCQUE and Marie-Josephte ROY and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre DOCQUE dit LAVIOLETTE and Catherine MOREAU (maternal) Antoine ROY and Marie-Louise SEGUIN

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

Rosalie married Xavier VILLENEUVE abt. 1845 . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Xavier VILLENEUVE was born 4 August 1818 in Rigaud, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Madeleine-de-Rigaud). Xavier was the child of Pierre-Anselme VILLENEUVE and Louise SEGUIN.

Rosalie DOCQUE dite LAVIOLETTE died 11 May 1906 in Rockland, Ontario, 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.

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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Rosalie DOCQUE dite LAVIOLETTE married

Xavier VILLENEUVE-- Date: abt. 1845 Place:
Xavier VILLENEUVE was the child of Pierre-Anselme VILLENEUVE and Louise SEGUIN

Children of Xavier VILLENEUVE and Rosalie DOCQUE dite LAVIOLETTE:

Rosalie VILLENEUVE (b.15 February 1849, Montebello, Canada East d. 19 January 1926, Ste-Trinite, Rockland, Ontario, Canada)
m. David TREMBLAY 8 January 1872

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1826 Birth
12 July 1826
Montebello, Lower Canada

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)

1849 Birth of Child
Rosalie VILLENEUVE was born 15 February 1849, Montebello, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours)

Rosalie was 22 years old.

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.