Elizabeth Lavinia PALMER

(b. 1 May 1818 , Aylesford, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 25 October 1874 , Aylesford, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada )

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Elizabeth Lavinia PALMER was born 1 May 1818 in Aylesford, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada

Elizabeth Lavinia PALMER was the child of Enoch Lewis PALMER and Margaret ROBINSON and the grandchild of: (paternal) Benjamin PALMER and Philena HUNT (maternal) Robert ROBINSON and Mary Ann Margaret TYLERSON

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Elizabeth Lavinia married Robert Frank COLLINS 29 September 1835 in Aylesford, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Robert Frank COLLINS was born 18 April 1815 in Liverpool, Queens, Queens, Nova Scotia, Canada. Robert Frank died 26 March 1886 in Aylesford, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada. Robert Frank was the child of Joseph COLLINS and Elizabeth TUPPER.

Elizabeth Lavinia PALMER died 25 October 1874 in Aylesford, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Elizabeth Lavinia PALMER married

Robert Frank COLLINS-- Date: 29 September 1835 Place: Aylesford, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada
Robert Frank COLLINS was the child of Joseph COLLINS and Elizabeth TUPPER

Children of Robert Frank COLLINS and Elizabeth Lavinia PALMER:

George Outhit COLLINS (b.abt. 1836, Aylesford, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 18 May 1892, Berwick, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada)
m. Annie Mae PHINNEY 20 August 1864

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1818 Birth
1 May 1818
Aylesford, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada

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

1835 Marriage / Partner
Elizabeth Lavinia PALMER and Robert Frank COLLINS 29 September 1835, Aylesford, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada

She was 17 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.