Mathilde QUEMENEUR dite LAFLAMME

(b. abt. 1829 , Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada d. 10 October 1875 , Québec Province, Canada )

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Mathilde QUEMENEUR dite LAFLAMME was born abt. 1829 in Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada

Mathilde QUEMENEUR dite LAFLAMME was the child of Jean-Baptiste LAFLAMME dit QUEMENEUR and Marie-Louise BERGERON and the grandchild of: (paternal) François LAFLAMME dit QUEMENEUR and Isabelle CODERRE (maternal) Michel BERGERON and Marie-Agathe DESMARAIS

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

Mathilde married Michel DESAUTELS 13 February 1844 in Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Michel DESAUTELS was born abt. 1821 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Michel died 31 May 1870 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Michel was the child of Michel DESAUTELS and Josephte LUSSIER.

Mathilde QUEMENEUR dite LAFLAMME died 10 October 1875 in Québec Province, 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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Mathilde QUEMENEUR dite LAFLAMME married

Michel DESAUTELS-- Date: 13 February 1844 Place: Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada East
Michel DESAUTELS was the child of Michel DESAUTELS and Josephte LUSSIER

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Children of Michel DESAUTELS and Mathilde QUEMENEUR dite LAFLAMME:

Michel DESAUTELS (b.15 January 1846, Saint-Pie, Canada East d. 15 September 1916, Sainte-Rosalie, Québec, Canada)
m. Sarah VINCENT 16 July 1872 in Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

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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
Mathilde QUEMENEUR dite LAFLAMME and Michel DESAUTELS 13 February 1844, Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

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

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1846 Birth of Child
Michel DESAUTELS was born 15 January 1846, Saint-Pie, Québec, Canada

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.