Marie-Esther MARCOTTE

(b. 24 November 1817 , Nicolet, Lower Canada d. 23 July 1870 , Warwick, Arthabaska, Quebec, Canada )

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Marie-Esther MARCOTTE was born 24 November 1817 in Nicolet, Lower Canada

Marie-Esther MARCOTTE was the child of ? and ?

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Marie-Esther married Jean-Baptiste MARTEL 29 April 1834 in Drummondville, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Jean-Baptiste MARTEL was born 21 March 1805 in Sainte-Croix, Lotbinière, Québec, Canada. Jean-Baptiste died 29 July 1899 in Warwick, Arthabaska, Quebec, Canada.

Marie-Esther MARCOTTE died 23 July 1870 in Warwick, Arthabaska, Quebec, 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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Marie-Esther MARCOTTE married

Jean-Baptiste MARTEL-- Date: 29 April 1834 Place: Drummondville, Lower Canada

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Children of Jean-Baptiste MARTEL and Marie-Esther MARCOTTE:

Marie Rose MARTEL (b.April 1839, Warwick, Arthabaska, Lower Canada d. 5 May 1929, Thompson, Connecticut, USA )
m. Joseph HOULE 11 January 1870

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1817 Birth
24 November 1817
Nicolet, Lower Canada

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

1834 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Esther MARCOTTE and Jean-Baptiste MARTEL 29 April 1834, Drummondville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Frédéric-de-Drummondville)

She was 16 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)

1839 Birth of Child
Marie Rose MARTEL was born April 1839, Warwick, Arthabaska, Québec, Canada

Marie-Esther was 21 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

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.