Marie GRANT

(b. 25 June 1793 , Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada d. September 1869 , Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada )

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Marie GRANT was born 25 June 1793 in Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada

Marie GRANT was the child of Jean Baptist GRANT and Anne WALSH and the grandchild of: (maternal) Michael WELCH and Mary DUNN

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Marie married Jean Baptiste ROY 20 January 1808 in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Jean Baptiste ROY was born 24 June 1787 in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada (Nepisiguit) (Nipisiguit). Jean Baptiste was the child of Thomas Felicien ROY and Marie Josephte GODIN.

Marie GRANT died September 1869 in Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada.
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Marie GRANT married

Jean Baptiste ROY-- Date: 20 January 1808 Place: Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada
Jean Baptiste ROY was the child of Thomas Felicien ROY and Marie Josephte GODIN

Children of Jean Baptiste ROY and Marie GRANT:

Marie Phoebe ROY (b.abt. 1818, Petit-Rocher, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada d. 12 June 1902, Petit-Rocher, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada)
m. Pierre DOUCET 29 January 1836 in Petit-Rocher, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada

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1793 Birth
25 June 1793
Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1808 Marriage / Partner
Marie GRANT and Jean Baptiste ROY 20 January 1808, Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada (Nepisiguit) (Nipisiguit)

She was 14 years old.

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 Marriage of Child
Marie Phoebe ROY married 29 January 1836, Petit-Rocher, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada to Pierre DOUCET

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.