Eliza WATKINS

(b. 27 March 1830 , Saint-Germain-de-Grantham, Lower Canada d. 11 September 1881 , Saint-Germain-de-Grantham, Québec, Canada )

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Eliza WATKINS was born 27 March 1830 in Saint-Germain-de-Grantham, Lower Canada

Eliza WATKINS was the child of James WATKINS and Eleanor Helena TARLEY (DOERLE)

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

Eliza married Gideon-Darby WRIGHT abt. 1846 in Drummondville, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Gideon-Darby WRIGHT was born 2 April 1820 in Drummondville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Frédéric-de-Drummondville). Gideon-Darby died 11 January 1911 in Drummondville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Frédéric-de-Drummondville). Gideon-Darby was the child of Gideon Darby WRIGHT and Margaret CRAIG (KLEIN).

Eliza WATKINS died 11 September 1881 in Saint-Germain-de-Grantham, 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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

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Family and Children of Eliza WATKINS

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Eliza WATKINS married

Gideon-Darby WRIGHT-- Date: abt. 1846 Place: Drummondville, Canada East
Gideon-Darby WRIGHT was the child of Gideon Darby WRIGHT and Margaret CRAIG (KLEIN)

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Children of Gideon-Darby WRIGHT and Eliza WATKINS:

Edmund WRIGHT (b.10/27/1854, Drummondville, Canada East d. 09/09/1895, Drummondville, Québec, Canada )
m. Mary Agnes CLARK 4 May 1880

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1830 Birth
27 March 1830
Saint-Germain-de-Grantham, Lower Canada

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.

1854 Birth of Child
Edmund WRIGHT was born 10/27/1854, Drummondville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Frédéric-de-Drummondville)

Eliza was 24 years old.

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.