Albert-Joseph GAUTHIER

(b. 29 September 1805 , Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada d. 19 August 1897 , Pierreville, Yamaska, Québec, Canada )

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Albert-Joseph GAUTHIER was born 29 September 1805 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada

Albert-Joseph GAUTHIER was the child of Joseph-Louis GAUTHIER and Marie-Josephte PEPIN dite LAFORCE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Gabriel GAUTHIER and Madeleine JOYAL (maternal) Joseph PEPIN dit LAFORCE and Marie Théotiste ORION dite CHAMPAGNE

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

Albert-Joseph married Marie-Thérèse-Claire HOUDE 18 October 1831 in Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 13 children.
Marie-Thérèse-Claire HOUDE was born 5 May 1814 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre). Marie-Thérèse-Claire died 14 March 1898 in Pierreville, Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Thomas). Marie-Thérèse-Claire was the child of Alexis-Clair HOUDE and Marie-Angélique CHEVREFILS dite BELISLE.

Albert-Joseph GAUTHIER died 19 August 1897 in Pierreville, Yamaska, Québec, Canada .
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Albert-Joseph GAUTHIER married

Marie-Thérèse-Claire HOUDE-- Date: 18 October 1831 Place: Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada
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Marie-Thérèse-Claire HOUDE was the child of Alexis-Clair HOUDE and Marie-Angélique CHEVREFILS dite BELISLE

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Children of Albert-Joseph GAUTHIER and Marie-Thérèse-Claire HOUDE:

Albert GAUTHIER (b.25 December 1832, Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada d. 4 October 1911, Pierreville, Yamaska, Québec, Canada )
m. Seraphine CHASSE 28 October 1856 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)
m. Marie-Anne JANELLE (HAMEL) 15 August 1865 in Pierreville, Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Thomas)

Thérèse GAUTHIER (b.27 May 1834, Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada d. 5 May 1913, St-Cyrille-de Wendover, Drummond, Quebec, Canada)

Philomene GAUTHIER (b.15 March 1836, Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada d. 10 August 1924, Pierreville, Yamaska, Québec, Canada )

Adelaide GAUTHIER (b.12 December 1837, Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada d. 6 April 1879, Pierreville, Yamaska, Québec, Canada )

Guillaume GAUTHIER (b.16 September 1839, Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada d. , )

Henriette GAUTHIER (b.19 October 1841, Saint-François-du-Lac, Canada East d. 14 April 1842, Saint-François-du-Lac, Canada East)

Guillaume GAUTHIER (b.24 June 1843, Saint-François-du-Lac, Canada East d. 17 December 1893, Saint-Rémi-de-Tingwick, Québec, Canada)

Israël GAUTHIER (b.20 February 1846, Saint-François-du-Lac, Canada East d. abt. 1930, , Massachusetts, USA)

Marie-Jesse GAUTHIER (b.30 June 1848, Saint-François-du-Lac, Canada East d. 2 June 1885, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada )

Clétus GAUTHIER (b.19 March 1851, Saint-François-du-Lac, Canada East d. 24 January 1936, Pierreville, Yamaska, Québec, Canada )

Joseph-Léon GAUTHIER (b.18 March 1853, Saint-François-du-Lac, Canada East d. 24 March 1853, Saint-François-du-Lac, Canada East)

Cléophire GAUTHIER (b.18 March 1853, Saint-François-du-Lac, Canada East d. 19 January 1917, Pierreville, Yamaska, Québec, Canada )

Edmond GAUTHIER (b.1 December 1854, Pierreville, Yamaska, Canada East d. 24 April 1855, Pierreville, Yamaska, Canada East )

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1805 Birth
29 September 1805
Baie-du-Fèbvre, 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 - 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

1831 Marriage / Partner
Albert-Joseph GAUTHIER and Marie-Thérèse-Claire HOUDE 18 October 1831, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

He was 26 years old.

1831 marriage

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1832 Birth of Child
Albert GAUTHIER was born 25 December 1832, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

Albert-Joseph was 27 years old.

1834 Birth of Child
Thérèse GAUTHIER was born 27 May 1834, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

Albert-Joseph was 28 years old.

1836 Birth of Child
Philomene GAUTHIER was born 15 March 1836, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

Albert-Joseph was 30 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

1837 Birth of Child
Adelaide GAUTHIER was born 12 December 1837, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

Albert-Joseph was 32 years old.

1839 - February 24 - Steam shovel patented by William Smith Otis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1839 Birth of Child
Guillaume GAUTHIER was born 16 September 1839, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

Albert-Joseph was 33 years old.

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

1841 Birth of Child
Henriette GAUTHIER was born 19 October 1841, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

Albert-Joseph was 36 years old.

1842 Death of Child
Henriette GAUTHIER died 14 April 1842, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

Albert-Joseph was 36 years old.

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
Guillaume GAUTHIER was born 24 June 1843, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

Albert-Joseph was 37 years old.

1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1846 Birth of Child
Israël GAUTHIER was born 20 February 1846, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

Albert-Joseph was 40 years old.

1848 Birth of Child
Marie-Jesse GAUTHIER was born 30 June 1848, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

Albert-Joseph was 42 years old.

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1851 Birth of Child
Clétus GAUTHIER was born 19 March 1851, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

Albert-Joseph was 45 years old.

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1853 Birth of Child
Cléophire GAUTHIER was born 18 March 1853, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

Albert-Joseph was 47 years old.

1853 Birth of Child
Joseph-Léon GAUTHIER was born 18 March 1853, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada

Albert-Joseph was 47 years old.

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1854 Birth of Child
Edmond GAUTHIER was born 1 December 1854, Pierreville, Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Thomas)

Albert-Joseph was 49 years old.

1855 Death of Child
Edmond GAUTHIER died 24 April 1855, Pierreville, Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Thomas)

Albert-Joseph was 49 years old.

1856 Marriage of Child
Albert GAUTHIER married 28 October 1856, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre) to Seraphine CHASSE

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)

1865 Marriage of Child
Albert GAUTHIER married 15 August 1865, Pierreville, Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Thomas) to Marie-Anne JANELLE (HAMEL)

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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1879 Death of Child
Adelaide GAUTHIER died 6 April 1879, Pierreville, Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Thomas)

Albert-Joseph was 73 years old.

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 Death of Child
Marie-Jesse GAUTHIER died 2 June 1885, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Albert-Joseph was 79 years old.

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1893 Death of Child
Guillaume GAUTHIER died 17 December 1893, Saint-Rémi-de-Tingwick, Québec, Canada

Albert-Joseph was 88 years old.

1894 - December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - May 1 - Charles Tupper becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - July 11 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1897 Death
19 August 1897
Pierreville, Yamaska, Québec, Canada

He died at the age of 91.

Added: 2/15/2015 10:11:10 AM - Updated: 10/29/2020 9:06:44 AM