Joseph Josué POTHIER

(b. 26 February 1797 , Lower Eel Brook, Argyle, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 11 September 1876 , Tusket, Argyle, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada )

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Joseph Josué POTHIER was born 26 February 1797 in Lower Eel Brook, Argyle, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Joseph Josué POTHIER was the child of Jean Baptiste POTHIER and Anne Esther MIUS D'ENTREMONT and the grandchild of: (paternal) Dominique POTHIER and Anne Agnes SURETTE (maternal) Joseph MIUS D'ENTREMONT and Agnes BÉLIVEAU

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

Joseph Josué married Rosalie MELANSON abt. 1821 in Eel Brook, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Rosalie MELANSON was born 9 September 1802 in Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada. Rosalie died abt. 1888 in St Marie Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada. Rosalie was the child of Jean Baptiste MELANSON and Cecile MURAT.

Joseph Josué POTHIER died 11 September 1876 in Tusket, Argyle, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Joseph Josué POTHIER married

Rosalie MELANSON-- Date: abt. 1821 Place: Eel Brook, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
Rosalie MELANSON was the child of Jean Baptiste MELANSON and Cecile MURAT

Children of Joseph Josué POTHIER and Rosalie MELANSON:

Marie Elizabeth POTHIER (b.2 November 1830, Eel Brook, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 7 July 1924, Belleville, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada)
m. Lezin Valentin POTHIER 1 September 1857 in , Nova Scotia, Canada

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1797 Birth
26 February 1797
Lower Eel Brook, Argyle, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

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

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

1830 Birth of Child
Marie Elizabeth POTHIER was born 2 November 1830, Eel Brook, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Joseph Josué was 33 years old.

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 Marriage of Child
Marie Elizabeth POTHIER married 1 September 1857, , Nova Scotia, Canada to Lezin Valentin POTHIER

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.