Marguerite PELOQUIN

(b. 15 May 1807 , Sorel, Lower Canada d. 16 September 1893 , Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada )

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Marguerite PELOQUIN was born 15 May 1807 in Sorel, Lower Canada

Marguerite PELOQUIN was the child of Antoine PELOQUIN dit FELIX CREDY and Marguerite DUFAULT and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph PELOQUIN dit FÉLIX and Marie-Louise HUS MILLET (maternal) Jean-Baptiste DUFAULT dit RACLOS and Marie-Josephe RAJOTTE

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

Marguerite married François TESSIER 26 September 1826 in Sorel, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
François TESSIER was born 23 September 1803 in Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre). François died 18 June 1896 in Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada. François was the child of Joseph TESSIER and Marie-Thérèse ÉTHIER.

Marguerite PELOQUIN died 16 September 1893 in Sainte-Victoire-de-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.

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Marguerite PELOQUIN married

François TESSIER-- Date: 26 September 1826 Place: Sorel, Lower Canada
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François TESSIER was the child of Joseph TESSIER and Marie-Thérèse ÉTHIER

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Children of François TESSIER and Marguerite PELOQUIN:

Marie-Reine TESSIER (b.22 March 1846, Sorel, Canada East d. , )

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1807 Birth
15 May 1807
Sorel, Lower Canada

Baptism

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The French In North America: 1500-1783

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)

1826 Marriage / Partner
Marguerite PELOQUIN and François TESSIER 26 September 1826, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

She was 19 years old.

1826 marriage

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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)

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

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1846 Birth of Child
Marie-Reine TESSIER was born 22 March 1846, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Marguerite was 38 years old.

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.