Angélique MARCOTTE

(b. 3 February 1780 , Deschambault, Province of Québec, Canada d. 19 October 1868 , Deschambault, Québec, Canada )

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Angélique MARCOTTE was born 3 February 1780 in Deschambault, Province of Québec, Canada

Angélique MARCOTTE was the child of Joseph-Louis MARCOTTE and Geneviève PAQUIN and the grandchild of: (paternal) Michel MARCOTTE and Marie-Louise RICHARD (maternal) Paul PAQUIN and Marie-Josephe ARCAND

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

Angélique married Nicolas PETIT 20 August 1799 in Deschambault, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Nicolas PETIT was born 14 September 1771 in Cap-Santé, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Famille-du-Cap-Sante). Nicolas died 14 May 1859 in Deschambault, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Deschambault). Nicolas was the child of Augustin PETIT and Marie-Josephte GODIN.

Angélique MARCOTTE died 19 October 1868 in Deschambault, 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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Angélique MARCOTTE married

Nicolas PETIT-- Date: 20 August 1799 Place: Deschambault, Lower Canada
Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

Nicolas PETIT was the child of Augustin PETIT and Marie-Josephte GODIN

Children of Nicolas PETIT and Angélique MARCOTTE:

Joseph-David PETIT (b.abt. 1806, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )
m. Flavie GAUTHIER 3 July 1827 in Deschambault, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Deschambault)

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1780 Birth
3 February 1780
Deschambault, Province of Québec, Canada

1784 - The bifocal lens is invented (Benjamin Franklin, United States)

The oil lamp is invented (Aimé Argand, Switzerland)

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

1799 Marriage / Partner
Angélique MARCOTTE and Nicolas PETIT 20 August 1799, Deschambault, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Deschambault)

She was 19 years old.

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)

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1827 Marriage of Child
Joseph-David PETIT married 3 July 1827, Deschambault, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Deschambault) to Flavie GAUTHIER

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)

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

1859 Death of Spouse/Partner
Nicolas PETIT died 14 May 1859, Deschambault, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Deschambault)

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.