Dominique GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE

(b. 13 January 1813 , Sorel, Lower Canada d. 29 June 1900 , Sorel, Québec, Canada )

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Dominique GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE was born 13 January 1813 in Sorel, Lower Canada

Dominique GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE was the child of Thomas GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE and Marie ALLARD and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jacques-Michel GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE and Catherine-Louise LEROUX (maternal) Pierre ALLARD and Félicité COMEAU

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

Dominique married Emelie COURNOYER 2 July 1833 in Sorel, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 14 children.
Emelie COURNOYER was born 8 January 1814 in Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre). Emelie died 30 November 1873 in Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre). Emelie was the child of Pierre HUS COURNOYER and Marie-Anne SALVAIL.

Dominique GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE died 29 June 1900 in Sorel, 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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

Québec Généalogie - What is a 'dit/dite' name? When the first settlers came to Québec from France it was a custom to add a 'dit' nickname to the surname. The English translation of 'dit' is 'said'. The Colonists of Nouvelle France added 'dit' names as distinguishers. A settler might have wanted to differentiate their family from their siblings by taking a 'dit' name that described the locale to which they had relocated. The acquiring of a 'dit' name might also be the result of a casual adoption, whereby the person wanted to honor the family who had raised them. Another reason was also to distinguish themselves by taking as a 'dit' name the town or village in France from which they originated. This custom ended around 1900 when people began using only one name, either the 'dit' nickname or their original surname.

Source: American-French Genealogical Society, Woonsocket, Rhode Island (www.afgs.org/ditnames/index1.html)

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Family and Children of Dominique GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE

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Dominique GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE married

Emelie COURNOYER-- Date: 2 July 1833 Place: Sorel, Lower Canada
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Emelie COURNOYER was the child of Pierre HUS COURNOYER and Marie-Anne SALVAIL

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Children of Dominique GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE and Emelie COURNOYER:

Marie GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE (b.13 May 1834, Sorel, Lower Canada d. 18 January 1915, Sorel, Québec, Canada )
m. Gilbert PELOQUIN 30 January 1855 in Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Esther GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE (b.25 May 1836, Sorel, Lower Canada d. 18 February 1840, Sorel, Lower Canada )

Roche GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE (b.3 June 1838, Sorel, Lower Canada d. 4 February 1840, Sorel, Lower Canada )

Domithilde GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE (b.3 January 1840, Sorel, Lower Canada d. 15 September 1840, Sorel, Lower Canada )

Odile GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE (b.10 March 1841, Sorel, Canada East d. 15 May 1900, , Connecticut, USA)

Esther GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE (b.18 October 1842, Sorel, Canada East d. 1 November 1842, Sorel, Canada East )

Felix GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE (b.18 October 1842, Sorel, Canada East d. 1 November 1842, Sorel, Canada East )

Marie-Delima GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE (b.29 October 1843, Sorel, Canada East d. , )

Marie-Elmire GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE (b.22 May 1845, Sorel, Canada East d. 18 March 1846, Sorel, Canada East )

Marie-Anne GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE (b.8 February 1847, Sorel, Canada East d. 3 September 1871, )

Louis-Philippe GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE (b.20 March 1848, Sorel, Canada East d. 12 March 1917, Sorel, Québec, Canada )
m. Theotiste DUFAULT 29 September 1868 in Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)
m. Marie-Theotiste BERARD 1 May 1888 in Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Philomène-Marie-Geneviève GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE (b.9 June 1850, Sorel, Canada East d. 26 April 1935, Sorel, Québec, Canada )

Emelie GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE (b.16 March 1853, Sorel, Canada East d. 14 April 1855, Sorel, Canada East )

Marie-Exérille GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE (b.7 March 1856, Sorel, Canada East d. 6 May 1921, Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada)
m. Jean-Baptiste LAVALLEE 4 August 1874 in Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

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1813 Birth
13 January 1813
Sorel, 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

1833 Marriage / Partner
Dominique GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE and Emelie COURNOYER 2 July 1833, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

He was 20 years old.

Dominique GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE - 1833 marriage

1833 marriage

Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
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1834 Birth of Child
Marie GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE was born 13 May 1834, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Dominique was 21 years old.

1836 Birth of Child
Esther GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE was born 25 May 1836, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Dominique was 23 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

1838 Birth of Child
Roche GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE was born 3 June 1838, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Dominique was 25 years old.

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

1840 to 1860s - French-Canadian emigration to the United States

1840 Birth of Child
Domithilde GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE was born 3 January 1840, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Dominique was 26 years old.

1840 Death of Child
Roche GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE died 4 February 1840, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Dominique was 27 years old.

1840 Death of Child
Esther GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE died 18 February 1840, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Dominique was 27 years old.

1841 - February 11 – Act of Union - The two colonies of The Canadas are merged into the United Province of Canada

1841 Birth of Child
Odile GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE was born 10 March 1841, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Dominique was 28 years old.

1842 Birth of Child
Esther GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE was born 18 October 1842, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Dominique was 29 years old.

1842 Birth of Child
Felix GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE was born 18 October 1842, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Dominique was 29 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
Marie-Delima GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE was born 29 October 1843, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Dominique was 30 years old.

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

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1845 Birth of Child
Marie-Elmire GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE was born 22 May 1845, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Dominique was 32 years old.

1846 Death of Child
Marie-Elmire GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE died 18 March 1846, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Dominique was 33 years old.

1847 Birth of Child
Marie-Anne GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE was born 8 February 1847, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Dominique was 34 years old.

1848 Birth of Child
Louis-Philippe GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE was born 20 March 1848, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Dominique was 35 years old.

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

1850 Birth of Child
Philomène-Marie-Geneviève GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE was born 9 June 1850, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Dominique was 37 years old.

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

1853 Birth of Child
Emelie GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE was born 16 March 1853, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Dominique was 40 years old.

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

1855 Marriage of Child
Marie GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE married 30 January 1855, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre) to Gilbert PELOQUIN

1855 Death of Child
Emelie GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE died 14 April 1855, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Dominique was 42 years old.

1856 Birth of Child
Marie-Exérille GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE was born 7 March 1856, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Dominique was 43 years old.

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.

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.

1868 Marriage of Child
Louis-Philippe GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE married 29 September 1868, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre) to Theotiste DUFAULT

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

1873 Death of Spouse/Partner
Emelie COURNOYER died 30 November 1873, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

1874 Marriage of Child
Marie-Exérille GAUTRON dite LAROCHELLE married 4 August 1874, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre) to Jean-Baptiste LAVALLEE

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.

1888 Marriage of Child
Louis-Philippe GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE married 1 May 1888, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre) to Marie-Theotiste BERARD

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