Andrew Weldon AYER

(b. abt. 1828 , Port Greville, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 10 June 1886 , Port Greville, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada )

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Andrew Weldon AYER was born abt. 1828 in Port Greville, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada

Andrew Weldon AYER was the child of Hugh Moore Mckinnon AYER and Margaret Jane WILLIGAR and the grandchild of: (maternal) Michael Nicholas WILLIGAR and Margaret Jane FORREST

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Andrew Weldon married Amelia SPICER 2 April 1851 in Cornwallis, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Amelia SPICER was born abt. 1828 in Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada. Amelia was the child of Joseph SPICER and Alice Elizabeth CROSSMAN.

Andrew Weldon AYER died 10 June 1886 in Port Greville, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Andrew Weldon AYER married

Amelia SPICER-- Date: 2 April 1851 Place: Cornwallis, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada
Amelia SPICER was the child of Joseph SPICER and Alice Elizabeth CROSSMAN

Children of Andrew Weldon AYER and Amelia SPICER:

Joseph Henry AYER (b.29 February 1852, Parrsboro, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 12 April 1928, Wards Brook, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada)
m. Elizabeth Bacon PARSONS 2 September 1873

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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)

1851 Marriage / Partner
Andrew Weldon AYER and Amelia SPICER 2 April 1851, Cornwallis, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1852 Birth of Child
Joseph Henry AYER was born 29 February 1852, Parrsboro, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada

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.