Augustin FUSEAU dit ROCH

(b. 7 December 1799 , Berthierville, Lower Canada d. 28 March 1883 , Ste-Mélanie, Canada )

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Augustin FUSEAU dit ROCH was born 7 December 1799 in Berthierville, Lower Canada

Augustin FUSEAU dit ROCH was the child of Antoine-Sulpice FUSEAU dit ROCH and Geneviève TELLIER and the grandchild of: (paternal) Mathurin FUSEAU dit ROCH and Marie-Françoise SERRE dite ST-JEAN (maternal) Charles TELLIER and Geneviève DESROSIERS dite LAFRENIÈRE

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

Augustin married Louise CHAMPOUX 11 July 1826 in Sainte-Élisabeth, Lower Canada . Louise CHAMPOUX was born 19 July 1804 in Bécancour, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Nativité-de-Notre-Dame-de-Becancour) (Saint-Edouard-de-Gentilly). Louise died 25 October 1885 in Ste-Mélanie, Canada. Louise was the child of Pierre CHAMPOUX dit ST-PAIR and Josephte BIGOT dite DORVAL.

Augustin FUSEAU dit ROCH died 28 March 1883 in Ste-Mélanie, Canada.

m. Champoux Louise

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Occupation

Augustin FUSEAU dit ROCH was a Cultivateur.
The farmer, cultivateur, or cultivator, was a person who cultivated and exploited the land in order to get a crop.

He may have been the proprietor of his own parcel(s) of land. He could, depending on the land size, have employed other agricultural workers. If he didn't own the land, he was called a tenant farmer.
Source: tfcq.ca

farmer

Source: Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts

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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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Augustin FUSEAU dit ROCH married

Louise CHAMPOUX-- Date: 11 July 1826 Place: Sainte-Élisabeth, Lower Canada
Louise CHAMPOUX was the child of Pierre CHAMPOUX dit ST-PAIR and Josephte BIGOT dite DORVAL

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1799 Birth
7 December 1799
Berthierville, 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
Augustin FUSEAU dit ROCH and Louise CHAMPOUX 11 July 1826, Sainte-Élisabeth, Québec, Canada (Ste-Elisabeth)

He was 26 years old.

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

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

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.