Genevieve GUILLEMIN

(b. 20 February 1800 , Québec, Lower Canada d. 27 May 1876 , Québec, Québec, Canada )

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Genevieve GUILLEMIN was born 20 February 1800 in Québec, Lower Canada

Genevieve GUILLEMIN was the child of Prisque GUILLEMIN and Monique PAQUET and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean GUILLEMIN and Marguerite LETARTE (LETARTRE) (maternal) Michel PAQUET and Charlotte MARTIN dite BEAULIEU

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Genevieve married Francois DESCROISELLES 11 January 1820 in Québec, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Francois DESCROISELLES was born abt. 1786 in Pointe à Pitre, Guadeloupe, France. Francois died 15 June 1832 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City).

Genevieve GUILLEMIN died 27 May 1876 in Québec, 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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Genevieve GUILLEMIN married

Francois DESCROISELLES-- Date: 11 January 1820 Place: Québec, Lower Canada
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Children of Francois DESCROISELLES and Genevieve GUILLEMIN:

Francois DESCROISELLES (b.6 February 1821, Québec, Lower Canada d. , )
m. Agathe DUMONT 29 October 1844 in Saint-André, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (St-Andre)

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1800 Birth
20 February 1800
Québec, Lower Canada

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 Marriage / Partner
Genevieve GUILLEMIN and Francois DESCROISELLES 11 January 1820, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

She was 19 years old.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1821 Birth of Child
Francois DESCROISELLES was born 6 February 1821, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

Genevieve was 20 years old.

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

1832 Death of Spouse/Partner
Francois DESCROISELLES died 15 June 1832, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

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)

1844 Marriage of Child
Francois DESCROISELLES married 29 October 1844, Saint-André, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (St-Andre) to Agathe DUMONT

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.