Robert DEMERCHANT

(b. abt. 1804 , Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada d. 22 January 1885 , Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada )

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Robert DEMERCHANT was born abt. 1804 in Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada

Robert DEMERCHANT was the child of John Cuffman DEMERCHANT and Mary Euella POMPHREY

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Robert married Sarah GEE abt. 1826 in Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Sarah GEE was born abt. 1806 in Florenceville, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada. Sarah died 16 August 1890 in Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada. Sarah was the child of Cornelius GEE and Rachel FOWLER.

Robert DEMERCHANT died 22 January 1885 in Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada.
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Robert DEMERCHANT married

Sarah GEE-- Date: abt. 1826 Place: Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
Sarah GEE was the child of Cornelius GEE and Rachel FOWLER

Children of Robert DEMERCHANT and Sarah GEE:

William DEMERCHANT (b.10 September 1828, Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada d. 24 January 1906, Monquart, Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada)
m. Mary Louisa BROWN 1847

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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)

1828 Birth of Child
William DEMERCHANT was born 10 September 1828, Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

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.