Mary Catherine BARR

Born

abt. 1797 , New Edinburgh, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada

Died

25 March 1881 , Plympton, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Henry BARR (LEBARRE)Elizabeth Ann BENNETT

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Born: abt. 1797 in New Edinburgh, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada

Father: Henry BARR (LEBARRE)

Mother: Elizabeth Ann BENNETT

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Mary Catherine married John Toby DOTY 23 December 1818 in Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
John Toby DOTY was born 5 May 1795 in Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada. John Toby died 10 May 1885 in Weymouth, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada. John Toby was the child of Samuel DOTY and Hephzibah PORTER.

Mary Catherine BARR died 25 March 1881 in Plympton, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Mary Catherine BARR married

John Toby DOTY
Marriage date: 23 December 1818
Marriage place: Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada
John Toby DOTY was the child of Samuel DOTY and Hephzibah PORTER

Children of John Toby DOTY and Mary Catherine BARR

Mary Catherine DOTY

Born: abt. 1821, Weymouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
Died: abt. 1900, Weymouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Married: Harry Solomon LEWIS 20 August 1840

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1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

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.

1818 Marriage / Partner
Mary Catherine BARR and John Toby DOTY 23 December 1818, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada

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)

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.

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.