Margaret CRAIG (KLEIN)

Born

8 February 1801 , Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada

Died

3 April 1876 , Drummondville, Québec, Canada

Margaret married Gideon Darby WRIGHT 21 January 1818 in Sorel, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Gideon Darby WRIGHT was born 9 October 1788 in Nether Exe, Devon, England. Gideon Darby died 19 August 1850 in Drummondville, Canada East .

Parents & Family of Margaret CRAIG (KLEIN)

Parents of Margaret CRAIG (KLEIN)

Father

Andrew CRAIG

Mother

Marie-Rose NADEAU

Grandparents of Margaret CRAIG (KLEIN)

Paternal grandparents

Paternal grandfather not yet recorded Paternal grandmother not yet recorded

Maternal grandparents

Louis NADEAU Marie-Françoise CAZAULT

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Margaret CRAIG (KLEIN)

Margaret CRAIG (KLEIN) married

Gideon Darby WRIGHT
Marriage date: 21 January 1818
Marriage place: Sorel, Lower Canada
Source: Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

Marriage notes:

Anglican Christ Church

Name: Gedeon Wright

Event Type: Mariage (Marriage)

Marriage Date: 21 janv. 1818 (21 Jan 1818)

Marriage Place: Sorel, Richelieu, Québec (Quebec)

Place of Worship or Institution: Anglican, Christ Church

Religion: Anglican

Spouse: Margaret Klein

Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec

Children of Gideon Darby WRIGHT and Margaret CRAIG (KLEIN)

Gideon-Darby WRIGHT

Born: 2 April 1820, Drummondville, Lower Canada
Died: 11 January 1911, Drummondville, Québec, Canada

Married: Eliza WATKINS 1846 Place: Drummondville, Canada East

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Québec Genealogy Notes

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Québec Place Names Through History

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Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1801
8 February 1801
Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1818 Marriage / Partner
Margaret CRAIG (KLEIN) and Gideon Darby WRIGHT 21 January 1818, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

She was 16 years old.

1818 marriage

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

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

1820 Birth of Child
Gideon-Darby WRIGHT was born 2 April 1820, Drummondville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Frédéric-de-Drummondville)

Margaret was 19 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)

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

1850 Death of Spouse/Partner
Gideon Darby WRIGHT died 19 August 1850, Drummondville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Frédéric-de-Drummondville)

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.