Edmund
WRIGHT
(b.
10/27/1854
,
Drummondville, Canada East
d.
09/09/1895
,
Drummondville, Québec, Canada
)
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Edmund WRIGHT was born 10/27/1854 in Drummondville, Canada East
Edmund WRIGHT was the child of Gideon-Darby WRIGHT and Eliza WATKINS and the grandchild of: (paternal) Gideon Darby WRIGHT and Margaret CRAIG (KLEIN) (maternal) James WATKINS and Eleanor Helena TARLEY (DOERLE)Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):
Edmund married Mary Agnes CLARK 4 May 1880 in Kingsley, Drummond, Quebec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Mary Agnes CLARK was born 8 May 1862 in Clyde, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland. Mary Agnes died 7 January 1905 in Richmond, Québec, Canada.
Edmund WRIGHT died 09/09/1895 in Drummondville, Québec, Canada .
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changesFrom 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.
Family and Children of Edmund WRIGHT
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Mary Agnes CLARK-- Date: 4 May 1880 Place: Kingsley, Drummond, Quebec, Canada
Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec
Children of Edmund WRIGHT and Mary Agnes CLARK:
Henry-Leonard WRIGHT (b.7 March 1884, Drummondville, Québec, Canada d. 13 January 1932, Montréal, Québec, Canada )
m. Martha Margaret Elizabeth HOOPPELL
Mary Agnes CLARK-- Date: 4 May 1880 Place: Kingsley, Drummond, Quebec, CanadaSacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec
Children of Edmund WRIGHT and Mary Agnes CLARK:
Henry-Leonard WRIGHT (b.7 March 1884, Drummondville, Québec, Canada d. 13 January 1932, Montréal, Québec, Canada )m. Martha Margaret Elizabeth HOOPPELL
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1854 Birth 10/27/1854
Drummondville, Canada East
1857 - Ottawa chosen by Queen Victoria as the capital of the united colony of Canada.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.
1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada
1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.
1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada
1880 Marriage / PartnerEdmund WRIGHT and Mary Agnes CLARK 4 May 1880, Kingsley, Drummond, Quebec, Canada
He was 25 years old.
1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)
1884 Birth of ChildHenry-Leonard WRIGHT was born 7 March 1884, Drummondville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Frédéric-de-Drummondville)
Edmund was 29 years old.
1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park. 1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)
First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented
1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada1894 - December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Prime Minister of Canada
1895 Death 09/09/1895
Drummondville, Québec, Canada
He died at the age of 40.
Edmund is buried at: Denison's Mills Cemetery Denison Mills Estrie Region Quebec, Canada
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