Jane COOKE

(b. abt. 1814 , Canada d. abt. 1899 , Durham-Sud, Québec, Canada )

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Jane COOKE was born abt. 1814 in Canada

Jane COOKE was the child of ? and ?

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Jane married Robert HOLMES 10 August 1835 in Drummondville, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Robert HOLMES was born July 1801 in England (United Kingdom). Robert died 13 November 1887 in Durham-Sud, Québec, Canada (Saint-Fulgence-de-Durham).

Jane COOKE died abt. 1899 in Durham-Sud, Québec, Canada .
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

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Jane COOKE married

Robert HOLMES-- Date: 10 August 1835 Place: Drummondville, Lower Canada

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Children of Robert HOLMES and Jane COOKE:

John Alexander HOLMES (b.17 May 1836, Durham, Drummond, Lower Canada d. 30 July 1934, Averill, Vermont, USA)
m. Sarah Jane PATRICK 6 February 1865

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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

1835 Marriage / Partner
Jane COOKE and Robert HOLMES 10 August 1835, Drummondville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Frédéric-de-Drummondville)

1836 Birth of Child
John Alexander HOLMES was born 17 May 1836, Durham, Drummond, Québec, Canada

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.