Rachel HALL

(b. 16 May 1805 , Port-Daniel, Lower Canada d. 27 April 1887 , Port-Daniel, Québec, Canada )

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Rachel HALL was born 16 May 1805 in Port-Daniel, Lower Canada

Rachel HALL was the child of Alexander HALL and Helen M'KAY (MCKAY) and the grandchild of: (paternal) Amos HALL and Nancy Ann GREENMAN

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

Rachel married Daniel HALL 24 November 1824 in New Carlisle, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 13 children.
Daniel HALL was born abt. 1795 in New Carlisle, Québec, Canada (Cox Township) . Daniel died 7 June 1872 in Port-Daniel, Québec, Canada. Daniel was the child of Edward O'HALL and Ann WOOD.

Rachel HALL died 27 April 1887 in Port-Daniel, Québec, Canada.

Name: Rachel Hall
Event: Enterrement (Burial)
Burial Year: 1887
Burial Location: Hope Town, Québec (Quebec)

Ancestry.com. Quebec, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.

Original data: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin.

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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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

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Family and Children of Rachel HALL

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Rachel HALL married

Daniel HALL-- Date: 24 November 1824 Place: New Carlisle, Lower Canada
Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

Daniel HALL was the child of Edward O'HALL and Ann WOOD

Name: Daniel Hall
Spouse: Rachel Hall
Event: Mariage (Marriage)
Marriage Year: 1824
Marriage Location: New Carlisle, Québec (Quebec)
Religion: Church of England
Place of Worship or Institution: Anglican, Church of England

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Children of Daniel HALL and Rachel HALL:

Elizabeth-Ann HALL (b.6 November 1825, Port-Daniel, Lower Canada d. 25 March 1892, , Québec Province, Canada )

John-Amos HALL (b.21 November 1826, New Carlisle, Lower Canada d. 3 August 1911, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada )
m. Marcelline ARSENAULT (ARSENEAU) 10 November 1856 in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

Deborah-Elizabeth HALL (b.29 September 1829, , Québec Province, Canada d. 8 July 1907, Port-Daniel, Québec, Canada)

Eunice HALL (b.21 November 1832, Port-Daniel, Lower Canada d. 8 June 1837, , Québec Province, Canada )

Sarah HALL (b.4 November 1834, Port-Daniel, Lower Canada d. 27 May 1837, )

Lucinda HALL (b.27 September 1836, Port-Daniel, Lower Canada d. 2 August 1919, Port-Daniel, Québec, Canada)

Ann HALL (b.9 September 1838, Port-Daniel, Lower Canada d. 7 August 1921, Shigawake, Bonaventure,, Quebec, Canada)

Daniel HALL (b.13 September 1840, Bonaventure, Lower Canada d. 22 October 1908, Bonaventure, Québec, Canada )

Margaret-Jane HALL (b.27 September 1842, Bonaventure, Canada East d. 30 March 1887, Bonaventure, Québec, Canada )

Barbara HALL (b.20 October 1844, Port-Daniel, Canada East d. 15 November 1918, )

Elizabeth HALL (b.6 January 1847, Port-Daniel, Canada East d. 3 March 1852, Port-Daniel, Canada East)

Sarah HALL (b.14 December 1850, Port-Daniel, Canada East d. 18 December 1906, )

Alexander HALL (b.4 December 1855, Port-Daniel, Canada East d. , )

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1805 Birth
16 May 1805
Port-Daniel, Lower Canada

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)

1824 Marriage / Partner
Rachel HALL and Daniel HALL 24 November 1824, New Carlisle, Québec, Canada (Cox Township)

She was 19 years old.

1824 marriage

Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

1825 Birth of Child
Elizabeth-Ann HALL was born 6 November 1825, Port-Daniel, Québec, Canada

Rachel was 20 years old.

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1826 Birth of Child
John-Amos HALL was born 21 November 1826, New Carlisle, Québec, Canada (Cox Township)

Rachel was 21 years old.

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1829 Birth of Child
Deborah-Elizabeth HALL was born 29 September 1829, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Rachel was 24 years old.

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1832 Birth of Child
Eunice HALL was born 21 November 1832, Port-Daniel, Québec, Canada

Rachel was 27 years old.

1834 Birth of Child
Sarah HALL was born 4 November 1834, Port-Daniel, Québec, Canada

Rachel was 29 years old.

1836 - July 21 - Opening of the first railway in Canada from La Prairie to St. Jean, Quebec

1836 Birth of Child
Lucinda HALL was born 27 September 1836, Port-Daniel, Québec, Canada

Rachel was 31 years old.

1837 Death of Child
Eunice HALL died 8 June 1837, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Rachel was 32 years old.

1837 - June 20 - Victoria becomes Queen of England

1838 Birth of Child
Ann HALL was born 9 September 1838, Port-Daniel, Québec, Canada

Rachel was 33 years old.

1839 - February 24 - Steam shovel patented by William Smith Otis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1840 to 1860s - French-Canadian emigration to the United States

1840 Birth of Child
Daniel HALL was born 13 September 1840, Bonaventure, Québec, Canada (Saint-Bonaventure)

Rachel was 35 years old.

1841 - February 11 – Act of Union - The two colonies of The Canadas are merged into the United Province of Canada

1842 Birth of Child
Margaret-Jane HALL was born 27 September 1842, Bonaventure, Québec, Canada (Saint-Bonaventure)

Rachel was 37 years old.

1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1844 Birth of Child
Barbara HALL was born 20 October 1844, Port-Daniel, Québec, Canada

Rachel was 39 years old.

1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1847 Birth of Child
Elizabeth HALL was born 6 January 1847, Port-Daniel, Québec, Canada

Rachel was 41 years old.

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1850 Birth of Child
Sarah HALL was born 14 December 1850, Port-Daniel, Québec, Canada

Rachel was 45 years old.

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1852 Death of Child
Elizabeth HALL died 3 March 1852, Port-Daniel, Québec, Canada

Rachel was 46 years old.

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1855 Birth of Child
Alexander HALL was born 4 December 1855, Port-Daniel, Québec, Canada

Rachel was 50 years old.

1856 Marriage of Child
John-Amos HALL married 10 November 1856, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila) to Marcelline ARSENAULT (ARSENEAU)

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.

Port Daniel, Bonaventure, Quebec
Name: Rachel Hall
Gender: Female
Age: 66
Birth Year: abt 1805
Birth Place: Quebec
Marital Status: Married
Religion: Church Of England
Origin: Scottish (Scotish)
Province: Quebec
District: Bonaventure
District Number: 169
Division: 02
Subdistrict: Port Daniel
Subdistrict Number: a

Household Members:
Name Age
Daniel Hall 76
Rachel Hall 66
Daniel Hall 30
Ann Hall 32
Sarah Hall 20
Alexander Hall 15
Elsee Hall 9
William Doro 31
Margret Doro 26
Mary Jane Doro 1
1871 Canadian Census
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1872 Death of Spouse/Partner
Daniel HALL died 7 June 1872, Port-Daniel, Québec, Canada

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

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)

Port Daniel, Bonaventure, Quebec
Name: Rachael Hall
Marital Status: Widowed
Age: 76
Birth Year: 1805
Birthplace: Quebec
Religion: Church of England
Nationality: English
Province: Quebec
District Number: 38
District: Bonaventure
Sub-District Number: A
Subdistrict: Port Daniel
Division: 2
Household Members:
Name Age
Rachael Hall 76
Daniel Hall 40
Sarah Hall 30
Eloie Hall 19
Mary Hall 9
Clara Hall 8
Vienna Hall 4

1881 Canadian Census
History of Canada: A Captivating Guide to Canadian History

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

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

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)