Ursule LANDRY

(b. abt. 1776 , Canada d. 3 August 1828 , Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada )
Cause of Death: leprosy

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Ursule LANDRY was born abt. 1776 in Canada

Ursule LANDRY was the child of Anselme LANDRY and Marie-Thérèse BRIDEAU and the grandchild of: (paternal) Alexis LANDRY and Marie Anne THÉRIAULT dite BERNARD (maternal) Louis BRIDEAU and Marie-Thérèse THOMAS

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Ursule married Joseph BENOIT 23 October 1798 in Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada . The couple had (at least) 5 children.
Joseph BENOIT was born abt. 1774 in Neguac, New Brunswick, Canada. Joseph died abt. 1834 in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila). Joseph was the child of Antoine BENOIT and Marie SAVOIE.

Ursule LANDRY died 3 August 1828 in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada .
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Ursule LANDRY married

Joseph BENOIT-- Date: 23 October 1798 Place: Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada
Joseph BENOIT was the child of Antoine BENOIT and Marie SAVOIE

Children of Joseph BENOIT and Ursule LANDRY:

Marie Helene BENOIT (b.15 October 1800, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada d. 4 November 1872, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada )
m. Augustin ROUSSEL 22 August 1819 in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

Marie BENOIT (b.19 February 1802, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada d. abt. 1870, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada )
m. Denis MCGRATH (MCGRAW) 8 January 1821 in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

Barbe BENOIT (b.3 December 1803, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada d. , )
m. Germain BRAULT 12 January 1824 in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

Germain BENOIT (b.2 April 1806, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada d. , )
m. Marguerite GAUTREAU 1 February 1826 in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

Anselme BENOIT (b.15 February 1810, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada d. , )
m. Domithilde DUGUE (DUGUAY) 20 July 1830 in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

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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)

1798 Marriage / Partner
Ursule LANDRY and Joseph BENOIT 23 October 1798 , Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada

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

1800 Birth of Child
Marie Helene BENOIT was born 15 October 1800, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

1802 Birth of Child
Marie BENOIT was born 19 February 1802, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

1803 Birth of Child
Barbe BENOIT was born 3 December 1803, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

1806 Birth of Child
Germain BENOIT was born 2 April 1806, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

1810 Birth of Child
Anselme BENOIT was born 15 February 1810, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

1815 - Leprosy, so far as is known, appeared for the first time in Canada at Tracadie in the Province of New Brunswick

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1815 - Leprosy
Hers was the first case of leprosy in Tracadie NB. She began showing symptoms around 1815 and she died of the disease in 1828. By the time of Ursule's death her leprosy had spread to her husband, sister Isabelle, and a pallbearer, Francis Saulnier, at her funeral.
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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.

1819 Marriage of Child
Marie Helene BENOIT married 22 August 1819, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila) to Augustin ROUSSEL

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1821 Marriage of Child
Marie BENOIT married 8 January 1821, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila) to Denis MCGRATH (MCGRAW)

1824 - Portland cement is invented (Joseph Aspdin, England)

1824 Marriage of Child
Barbe BENOIT married 12 January 1824, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila) to Germain BRAULT

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1826 Marriage of Child
Germain BENOIT married 1 February 1826, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila) to Marguerite GAUTREAU

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

Ursule and Leprosy
'One sultry August afternoon in the year 1828 the Rev. Mr. de Bellefeuille, a missionary priest visiting Tracadie, was called upon to bury a woman named Ursule Landry who died of a mysteious and loathsome disease to which none could qive a name. Her flesh had become hard and scaly; hideous swellings distorted her face and form; spots of a brownish tint appeared upon her limb...

Pauvre Ursule! There are some in Tracadie who hate that woman, who say she brought a curse on all of us. But I don't blame her for 'La maladie' any more than I would blame the weather or the food that ue ate... though there are those who believe the climate, cold and damp, brought it to our shores or that it is caused by the salted fish.

I was a girl of fifteen when Ursule died; so I knew her, a small woman with rounded shoulders who used two walking sticks to stand. Her face was hidden under a veil qnd she always wore a bonnet.

For the last year of the disease, she stayed in her cabin with only her...Read MORE...

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