Samuel PETERS

(b. 28 August 1801 , Pittsburgh, Kingston, Frontenac, Upper Canada d. 16 April 1887 , Pittsburgh, Kingston, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada )

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Samuel PETERS was born 28 August 1801 in Pittsburgh, Kingston, Frontenac, Upper Canada

Samuel PETERS was the child of Samuel Andrew PETERS and Elizabeth PARRY and the grandchild of: (paternal) Samuel Andrew PETERS and Huldah YOUNGS (maternal) William Nelson PERRY (PARRY) and Catherine Agnes WILLIAMS

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Samuel married Louisa Maria BURLEY abt. 1828 in Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Louisa Maria BURLEY was born abt. 1811 in Wilton, Loyalist Township, Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada. Louisa Maria died abt. 1892 in Pittsburgh, Kingston, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada. Louisa Maria was the child of Freeman Thomas BURLEY and Mary Elizabeth O'NEIL.

Samuel PETERS died 16 April 1887 in Pittsburgh, Kingston, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada.
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Samuel PETERS married

Louisa Maria BURLEY-- Date: abt. 1828 Place: Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada
Louisa Maria BURLEY was the child of Freeman Thomas BURLEY and Mary Elizabeth O'NEIL

Children of Samuel PETERS and Louisa Maria BURLEY:

John PETERS (b.abt. 1836, Ernestown, Addington, Upper Canada d. , )
m. Mary REDDEN 15 December 1862

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1801 Birth
28 August 1801
Pittsburgh, Kingston, Frontenac, Upper Canada

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

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.