Cordelia (Delia) (Leocadie) BELETTE HARPER (HARPIN) (HERPIN)

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21 September 1837 , Contrecœur, Lower Canada

Died

14 July 1889 , Milton, Vermont, USA

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Born: 21 September 1837 in Contrecœur, Lower Canada

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Cordelia (Delia) (Leocadie) married Abraham (Amable Henry) WELLS (STERN dit NOEL) abt. 1856 . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Abraham (Amable Henry) WELLS (STERN dit NOEL) was born 17 June 1832 in Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada. Abraham (Amable Henry) died 31 July 1904 in Colchester, Vermont, USA (Malletts Bay). Abraham (Amable Henry) was the child of Abraham Amable STERN dit WELLS and Geneviève VALOIS.

Cordelia (Delia) (Leocadie) BELETTE HARPER (HARPIN) (HERPIN) died 14 July 1889 in Milton, Vermont, USA.
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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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Cordelia (Delia) (Leocadie) BELETTE HARPER (HARPIN) (HERPIN) married

Abraham (Amable Henry) WELLS (STERN dit NOEL)
Marriage date: abt. 1856
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Abraham (Amable Henry) WELLS (STERN dit NOEL) was the child of Abraham Amable STERN dit WELLS and Geneviève VALOIS

Children of Abraham (Amable Henry) WELLS (STERN dit NOEL) and Cordelia (Delia) (Leocadie) BELETTE HARPER (HARPIN) (HERPIN)

Anna WELLS

Born: 24 April 1861, Milton, Vermont, USA
Died: 13 March 1931, Winooski, Vermont, USA

Married: Moses (Moise) TETR(E)AULT (ROWE) 4 May 1880 Place: Milton, Vermont, USA

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Birth — 1837
21 September 1837
Contrecœur, Lower Canada

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

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)

1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1861 Birth of Child
Anna WELLS was born 24 April 1861, Milton, Vermont, USA

Cordelia (Delia) (Leocadie) was 23 years old.

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1870 - Milton, Vermont
1870 U.S. census, Milton, Chittenden Co., Vt., #280/ 280:
Abraham Wells, 47, male, farm laborer, $275 personal property, born Canada
Adelia, 33, female, keeping house, born Canada
Adelia, 14, female, born Massachusetts
Abraham, 11, male, born Massachusetts
Anna, 8, born Massachusetts
Ellen, 6, born Vermont
Louis, 5, born Vermont
Ike, 3, born Vermont
Hattie, 9/ 12, female, born Vermont
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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.

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

1880 - Milton, Vermont
1880 U.S. census, Milton, Chittenden Co., Vt., #79/ 85:
Abram Wells, 48, male, farmer, born Canada
Leah, female, 42, keeping house, born Canada
Abram, 25, male, day laborer, born Vermont
Isaac, 23, male, day laborer, born Vermont
Eliza, 16, female, born Vermont
Lewis, 14, male, born Vermont
Hattie, 12, female, born Vermont
Millie, 6, female, born Vermont
Mary, 1, female, born Vermont
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