Ignace PAQUET

(b. 10 November 1796 , Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse, Lower Canada d. 15 August 1857 , Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada East )

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Ignace PAQUET was born 10 November 1796 in Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse, Lower Canada

Ignace PAQUET was the child of Jean-Baptiste PAQUET and Marie-Marguerite FOURNIER and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre PAQUET and Marie-Louise FILTEAU (maternal) Augustin FOURNIER and Marie BOUTHILLETTE

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Ignace married Ursule MARTIN 21 November 1826 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 5 children.
Ursule MARTIN was born 21 December 1804 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire, Saint-Hyacinthe-le-Confesseur). Ursule died 13 September 1873 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Ursule was the child of Jean-Baptiste MARTIN and Marie-Susanne VEGIARD dite LABONTÉ.

Ignace PAQUET died 15 August 1857 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada East .
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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
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Family and Children of Ignace PAQUET

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Ignace PAQUET married

Ursule MARTIN-- Date: 21 November 1826 Place: Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada
Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
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Ursule MARTIN was the child of Jean-Baptiste MARTIN and Marie-Susanne VEGIARD dite LABONTÉ

Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire, St-Hyacinthe, Quebec

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Children of Ignace PAQUET and Ursule MARTIN:

Ignace PAQUET (b.25 December 1827, Saint-Pie, Lower Canada d. 21 July 1896, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA)

Jean-Baptiste PAQUET (b.14 April 1830, Saint-Pie, Lower Canada d. , )

Antoine Stanislaus PAQUET (b.6 May 1837, Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada d. 13 May 1909, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA)

Marie PAQUET (b.abt. 1838, Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada d. abt. 1912, Garden, Michigan, USA)

Pierre Ludger PAQUET (b.12 September 1841, Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada East d. 21 July 1896, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA)

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1796 Birth
10 November 1796
Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse, Lower Canada

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

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
Ignace PAQUET and Ursule MARTIN 21 November 1826, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire, Saint-Hyacinthe-le-Confesseur)

He was 30 years old.

1826 marriage

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The French In North America: 1500-1783

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1827 Birth of Child
Ignace PAQUET was born 25 December 1827, Saint-Pie, Québec, Canada

Ignace was 31 years old.

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1830 Birth of Child
Jean-Baptiste PAQUET was born 14 April 1830, Saint-Pie, Québec, Canada

Ignace was 33 years old.

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 Birth of Child
Antoine Stanislaus PAQUET was born 6 May 1837, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire, Saint-Hyacinthe-le-Confesseur)

Ignace was 40 years old.

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

1841 Birth of Child
Pierre Ludger PAQUET was born 12 September 1841, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire, Saint-Hyacinthe-le-Confesseur)

Ignace was 44 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)

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.