Samuel KENNEDY

Born

September 8 1845 , Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Died

abt. 1885 , Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Age: 49
Cause of Death: consumption

Samuel married Julia BUTT 26 January 1876 in Carbonear, Crocker's Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Julia BUTT was born abt. 1850 in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Julia died abt. 1892 in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Parents & Family of Samuel KENNEDY

Parents of Samuel KENNEDY

Father

Joseph KENNEDY

Mother

Frances DAWE (DEAN)

Grandparents of Samuel KENNEDY

Paternal grandparents

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married julia Butt jan 26 1876
died 5 days after daughter born in 1892

WORK & OCCUPATION

Occupation

Recorded occupation: fisherman

The pêcheur d'anguille, or eel fisherman, was a person who caught eels either for personal consumption or for sale. Eel fishing was practiced mainly in the St. Lawrence, but also in the Richelieu River, Lake St. Pierre, near L'Islet and Kamouraska.

Fishing was the first resource of early inhabitants, as they waited for their land to be cleared and start producing wheat.
Source: tfcq.ca

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Samuel KENNEDY

Samuel KENNEDY married

Julia BUTT
Marriage date: 26 January 1876
Marriage place: Carbonear, Crocker's Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Children of Samuel KENNEDY and Julia BUTT

Ambrose Thomas KENNEDY

Born: 2 February 1882, Carbonear , Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Died: 31 March 1965, St Catharines, Ontario, Canada

Married: Edith Josephine PROVONSHA 14 January 1913 Place: Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada

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Birth — 1845
September 8 1845
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

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.

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 Canada

1876 Marriage / Partner
Samuel KENNEDY and Julia BUTT 26 January 1876, Carbonear, Crocker's Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

He was 30 years old.

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1882 Birth of Child
Ambrose Thomas KENNEDY was born 2 February 1882, Carbonear , Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Samuel was 36 years old.

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

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