Marcelline BOURBEAU

(b. 26 August 1816 , Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada d. 6 March 1893 , Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada )

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Marcelline BOURBEAU was born 26 August 1816 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada

Marcelline BOURBEAU was the child of Francois-Augustin BOURBEAU and Marie-Josephte-Luce ROUSSEL and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre-Charles BOURBEAU and Marie-Anne MORAND dite DOUVILLE (maternal) Augustin-Pierre ROUSSEL and Marie-Josephe DROLET

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

Marcelline married Jean-Baptiste RACICOT 17 September 1844 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Jean-Baptiste RACICOT was born 10 March 1816 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire, Saint-Hyacinthe-le-Confesseur). Jean-Baptiste died 15 August 1857 in Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada . Jean-Baptiste was the child of Pierre RACICOT and Marie-Amable GOGUET (GOYETTE).

Marcelline BOURBEAU died 6 March 1893 in Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, 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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Marcelline BOURBEAU married

Jean-Baptiste RACICOT-- Date: 17 September 1844 Place: Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada East
Jean-Baptiste RACICOT was the child of Pierre RACICOT and Marie-Amable GOGUET (GOYETTE)

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Children of Jean-Baptiste RACICOT and Marcelline BOURBEAU:

Jean-Baptiste RACICOT (b.15 July 1850, Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada East d. 15 November 1889, Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada )
m. Celeste TREMBLAY 3 August 1874 in Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada (Pointe-Olivier)

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1816 Birth
26 August 1816
Saint-Hyacinthe, 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

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 / Partner
Marcelline BOURBEAU and Jean-Baptiste RACICOT 17 September 1844, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire, Saint-Hyacinthe-le-Confesseur)

She was 28 years old.

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)

1850 Birth of Child
Jean-Baptiste RACICOT was born 15 July 1850, Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

Marcelline was 33 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.

1857 Death of Spouse/Partner
Jean-Baptiste RACICOT died 15 August 1857, Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, 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.

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

1874 Marriage of Child
Jean-Baptiste RACICOT married 3 August 1874, Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada (Pointe-Olivier) to Celeste TREMBLAY

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)

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

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

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)

1889 Death of Child
Jean-Baptiste RACICOT died 15 November 1889, Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

Marcelline was 73 years old.

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