Joseph Edmond MELANSON

Born

24 July 1812 , Cocagne, Dundas, Kent, New Brunswick, Canada

Died

1 March 1888 , Cocagne, Kent, New Brunwick, Canada

Age: 80

Parents & Family of Joseph Edmond MELANSON

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Born: 24 July 1812 in Cocagne, Dundas, Kent, New Brunswick, Canada

Parents of Joseph Edmond MELANSON

Father

Dominique MELANSON

Mother

Isabelle Elisabeth PORELLE

Grandparents of Joseph Edmond MELANSON

Paternal grandparents

David MELANSON Marguerite LEBLANC

Maternal grandparents

Jean-François PORELLE Mary NOILS

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

Joseph Edmond married Madeleine RICHARD 29 September 1828 in Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Madeleine RICHARD was born 16 January 1806 in Grande-Digue, New Brunswick, Canada. Madeleine died 25 March 1867 in Cocagne, Dundas, Kent, New Brunswick, Canada.

Joseph Edmond MELANSON died 1 March 1888 in Cocagne, Kent, New Brunwick, Canada.
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Spouses, Marriages & Children of Joseph Edmond MELANSON

Joseph Edmond MELANSON married

Madeleine RICHARD
Marriage date: 29 September 1828
Marriage place: Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada

Children of Joseph Edmond MELANSON and Madeleine RICHARD

Adeline MELANSON

Born: 27 January 1852, Cocagne, Kent, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: 3 October 1916, Grande-Digue, New Brunswick, Canada

Married: Philippe CORMIER 26 January 1874

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Birth — 1812
24 July 1812
Cocagne, Dundas, Kent, New Brunswick, 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)

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

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

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1828 Marriage / Partner
Joseph Edmond MELANSON and Madeleine RICHARD 29 September 1828, Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada

He was 16 years old.

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)

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

1852 Birth of Child
Adeline MELANSON was born 27 January 1852, Cocagne, Kent, New Brunswick, Canada

Joseph Edmond was 39 years old.

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.