Rebecca RIPLEY

(b. 27 November 1808 , Nappan, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 5 November 1874 , Fenwick, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada )

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Rebecca RIPLEY was born 27 November 1808 in Nappan, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada

Rebecca RIPLEY was the child of Henry RIPLEY and Isabella Mary FAWCETT

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Rebecca married Thomas SMITH 4 February 1834 in Nappan, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Thomas SMITH was born 19 December 1806 in Nappan, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada. Thomas died 14 December 1892 in Nappan, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada. Thomas was the child of John SMITH and Dorothy SHIPLEY.

Rebecca RIPLEY died 5 November 1874 in Fenwick, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Rebecca RIPLEY married

Thomas SMITH-- Date: 4 February 1834 Place: Nappan, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada
Thomas SMITH was the child of John SMITH and Dorothy SHIPLEY

Children of Thomas SMITH and Rebecca RIPLEY:

John C SMITH (b.5 December 1833, Nappan, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada d. 23 February 1913, Fenwick, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada)
m. Hannah E RIPLEY 30 October 1859

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1808 Birth
27 November 1808
Nappan, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, 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

1833 Birth of Child
John C SMITH was born 5 December 1833, Nappan, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada

Rebecca was 25 years old.

1834 Marriage / Partner
Rebecca RIPLEY and Thomas SMITH 4 February 1834, Nappan, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada

She was 25 years old.

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.