Enoch Lewis PALMER

(b. 24 April 1788 , Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 10 December 1869 , Aylesford, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada )

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Enoch Lewis PALMER was born 24 April 1788 in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada

Enoch Lewis PALMER was the child of Benjamin PALMER and Philena HUNT

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

Enoch Lewis married Margaret ROBINSON 11 March 1811 in Morristown, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Margaret ROBINSON was born 20 June 1794 in Wilmot, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada. Margaret died 9 March 1882 in Morristown, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada. Margaret was the child of Robert ROBINSON and Mary Ann Margaret TYLERSON.

Enoch Lewis PALMER died 10 December 1869 in Aylesford, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Enoch Lewis PALMER married

Margaret ROBINSON-- Date: 11 March 1811 Place: Morristown, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada
Margaret ROBINSON was the child of Robert ROBINSON and Mary Ann Margaret TYLERSON

Children of Enoch Lewis PALMER and Margaret ROBINSON:

Elizabeth Lavinia PALMER (b.1 May 1818, Aylesford, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 25 October 1874, Aylesford, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada)
m. Robert Frank COLLINS 29 September 1835

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1788 Birth
24 April 1788
Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

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

1811 Marriage / Partner
Enoch Lewis PALMER and Margaret ROBINSON 11 March 1811, Morristown, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada

He was 22 years old.

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.

1818 Birth of Child
Elizabeth Lavinia PALMER was born 1 May 1818, Aylesford, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada

Enoch Lewis was 30 years old.

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

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.