Elizabeth CUNNING

(b. 15 August 1793 , Haldimand, Gaspé-Est, Lower Canada d. 16 November 1879 , Wakeham, Gaspé, Québec, Canada )

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Elizabeth CUNNING was born 15 August 1793 in Haldimand, Gaspé-Est, Lower Canada

Elizabeth CUNNING was the child of James CUNNING and Maria Louisa KELLY

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Elizabeth married Samuel TRIPP abt. 1811 in Gaspé Basin, Québec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Samuel TRIPP was born 18 September 1779 in Gaspé, Québec, Canada (Saint-Albert-de-Gaspe). Samuel died 5 May 1863 in Gaspe Bay, Gaspe, Quebec, Canada. Samuel was the child of Robert TRIPP and Patience HERRINGTON.

Elizabeth CUNNING died 16 November 1879 in Wakeham, Gaspé, 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.

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Elizabeth CUNNING married

Samuel TRIPP-- Date: abt. 1811 Place: Gaspé Basin, Québec, Canada
Samuel TRIPP was the child of Robert TRIPP and Patience HERRINGTON

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Children of Samuel TRIPP and Elizabeth CUNNING:

Joseph TRIPP (b.23 August 1823, Wakeham, Gaspé, La Côte-de-Gaspé, Quebec, Canada d. 16 January 1895, Wakeham, Gaspé, La Côte-de-Gaspé, Quebec, Canada)
m. Ellen Bertha SUDDARD 2 September 1845 in Gaspé, Québec, Canada (Saint-Albert-de-Gaspe)

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1793 Birth
15 August 1793
Haldimand, Gaspé-Est, Lower Canada

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

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

1823 Birth of Child
Joseph TRIPP was born 23 August 1823, Wakeham, Gaspé, La Côte-de-Gaspé, Quebec, Canada

Elizabeth was 30 years old.

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)

1845 Marriage of Child
Joseph TRIPP married 2 September 1845, Gaspé, Québec, Canada (Saint-Albert-de-Gaspe) to Ellen Bertha SUDDARD

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

1863 Death of Spouse/Partner
Samuel TRIPP died 5 May 1863, Gaspe Bay, Gaspe, Quebec, Canada

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.