Sarah DUNCAN

(b. 28 July 1795 , LaHave, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 14 December 1871 , New Ross, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada )

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Sarah DUNCAN was born 28 July 1795 in LaHave, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada

Sarah DUNCAN was the child of George DUNCAN and Phoebe HUTCHINSON and the grandchild of: (maternal) John HUTCHINSON and Janet SMALL

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Sarah married John Henry WAMBOLDT 28 October 1819 in Lunenburg, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
John Henry WAMBOLDT was born 1 February 1797 in Chester, Lunenburg Co, Nova Scotia, Canada. John Henry was the child of John Leonard WAMBOLDT and Anna Barbara HILTZ.

Sarah DUNCAN died 14 December 1871 in New Ross, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Sarah DUNCAN married

John Henry WAMBOLDT-- Date: 28 October 1819 Place: Lunenburg, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada
John Henry WAMBOLDT was the child of John Leonard WAMBOLDT and Anna Barbara HILTZ

Children of John Henry WAMBOLDT and Sarah DUNCAN:

Margaret WAMBOLT (b.6 October 1820, Chester, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 9 June 1871, Blind Bay, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada)
m. Edward LYNCH 5 January 1841

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1795 Birth
28 July 1795
LaHave, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, 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.

1819 Marriage / Partner
Sarah DUNCAN and John Henry WAMBOLDT 28 October 1819, Lunenburg, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada

She was 24 years old.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1820 Birth of Child
Margaret WAMBOLT was born 6 October 1820, Chester, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada

Sarah was 25 years old.

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

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.