Cecile
FORGET dite DESPATITS
(b.
5 September 1751
,
Mascouche, Canada, New France
d.
4 August 1793
,
Vaudreuil, Lower Canada
)
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Cecile FORGET dite DESPATITS was born 5 September 1751 in Mascouche, Canada, New France
Cecile FORGET dite DESPATITS was the child of Jean-Baptiste FORGET and Marie-Anne MENARD and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptiste FORGET dit DESPATITS and Jeanne BAUDOIN (BEAUDOIN) (maternal) Louis MENARD and Marie-Anne FEVRIERCecile FORGET dite DESPATITS died 4 August 1793 in Vaudreuil, Lower Canada .
m. Doutre Fereol
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changesFrom 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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1751 Birth 5 September 1751
Mascouche, Canada, New France
1763 - France cedes its North American posessions to Britain by the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years War (French and Indian War). Quebec City French-speaking Catholics were now under the rule of Protestant Britain under King George III.
1775 - The Battle of Québec was fought on December 31 between the American Continental Army and British defenders of Québec City. It was the first major defeat for the Americans in the Revolutionary War.
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 Death 4 August 1793
Vaudreuil, Lower Canada
She died at the age of 41.
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