Alonzo LEAVITT

Born

14 February 1833 , Melbourne, Quebec, Canada

Died

23 January 1877 , Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

Alonzo married Mary Jane CONWAY 29 August 1853 in Richmond, Melbourne, Le Val-Saint-François, Quebec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Mary Jane CONWAY was born 4 February 1838 in Richmond, Lower Canada. Mary Jane died 2 February 1922 in Rumford, Maine, USA. Mary Jane was the child of Barney CONWAY and Mary UNKNOWN .

Parents & Family of Alonzo LEAVITT

Parents of Alonzo LEAVITT

Father

Dudley LEAVITT

Mother

Judith Lovina PEASE

Grandparents of Alonzo LEAVITT

Paternal grandparents

Wadleigh LEAVITT Elizabeth Cram LEAVITT

Maternal grandparents

Nathaniel PEASE Judith PEASE

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Alonzo LEAVITT

Alonzo LEAVITT married

Mary Jane CONWAY
Marriage date: 29 August 1853
Marriage place: Richmond, Melbourne, Le Val-Saint-François, Quebec, Canada
Mary Jane CONWAY was the child of Barney CONWAY and Mary UNKNOWN

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

Children of Alonzo LEAVITT and Mary Jane CONWAY

William Henry LEAVITT

Born: 12 July 1866, Wickham, Drummond, Quebec, Canada
Died: 9 November 1905, Claremont, New Hampshire, USA

Married: Myrtie Luella COOKSON 13 September 1901 Place: Newport, Maine, USA

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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 — 1833
14 February 1833
Melbourne, Quebec, Canada

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.

1853 Marriage / Partner
Alonzo LEAVITT and Mary Jane CONWAY 29 August 1853, Richmond, Melbourne, Le Val-Saint-François, Quebec, Canada

He was 20 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)

1866 Birth of Child
William Henry LEAVITT was born 12 July 1866, Wickham, Drummond, Quebec, Canada

Alonzo was 33 years old.

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.