Sarah RYLEY (RILEY)

(b. abt. 1778 , Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada d. abt. 1871 , Little Bras d'Or, Cape Breton, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada )

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Sarah RYLEY (RILEY) was born abt. 1778 in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada

Sarah RYLEY (RILEY) was the child of ? and ?

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Sarah married Gabriel LEJEUNE abt. 1800 in Nova Scotia, Canada . The couple had (at least) 3 children.
Gabriel LEJEUNE was born abt. 1775 in Nova Scotia, Canada. Gabriel died 28 March 1838 in Little Bras d'Or, Nova Scotia, Canada. Gabriel was the child of Joseph Charles LEJEUNE and Martine ROY.

Sarah RYLEY (RILEY) died abt. 1871 in Little Bras d'Or, Cape Breton, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Sarah RYLEY (RILEY) married

Gabriel LEJEUNE-- Date: abt. 1800 Place: , Nova Scotia, Canada
Gabriel LEJEUNE was the child of Joseph Charles LEJEUNE and Martine ROY

Children of Gabriel LEJEUNE and Sarah RYLEY (RILEY):

Elizabeth YOUNG (LEJEUNE) (b.abt. 1811, Little Bras d'Or, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada d. , )
m. Auguste Angus BENOIT

Emilie Amelia LEJEUNE (b.abt. 1812, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada d. , )
m. Jean Francois MARCHE 1835

Henry YOUNG (b.abt. 1818, Little Bras d'Or, Cape Breton, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 9 February 1906, Port au Port Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada)
m. Susanne DAUPHNE 1839

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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)

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)

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

1838 Death of Spouse/Partner
Gabriel LEJEUNE died 28 March 1838, Little Bras d'Or, Nova Scotia, Canada

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.