Elizabeth ROBERTSON

(b. 4 September 1789 , Nipisguit, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada d. abt. 1871 , New Brunswick, Canada )

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Elizabeth ROBERTSON was born 4 September 1789 in Nipisguit, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada

Elizabeth ROBERTSON was the child of Jacques ROBERTSON and Helene Anne MORRISON and the grandchild of: (maternal) John Angus MORRISON and Isabelle KETNEY

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Elizabeth married Gregoire ARSENAULT 30 October 1820 in Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Gregoire ARSENAULT was born 20 June 1801 in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada (Nepisiguit) (Nipisiguit). Gregoire was the child of Joseph ARSENAULT and Marie-Anne GODIN.

Elizabeth ROBERTSON died abt. 1871 in New Brunswick, Canada.
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Elizabeth ROBERTSON married

Gregoire ARSENAULT-- Date: 30 October 1820 Place: Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada
Gregoire ARSENAULT was the child of Joseph ARSENAULT and Marie-Anne GODIN

Children of Gregoire ARSENAULT and Elizabeth ROBERTSON:

Joseph ARSENAULT (b.11 May 1822, Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada d. 10 August 1911, )
m. Marie PITRE 22 November 1841

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1789 Birth
4 September 1789
Nipisguit, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada

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 Marriage / Partner
Elizabeth ROBERTSON and Gregoire ARSENAULT 30 October 1820, Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada

She was 31 years old.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1822 Birth of Child
Joseph ARSENAULT was born 11 May 1822, Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada (Nepisiguit) (Nipisiguit)

Elizabeth was 32 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.