Sarah HAWKESWORTH

Born

5 September 1775 , Granville, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada

Died

abt. 1877 , Granville, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Adam HAWKESWORTH Elizabeth WEDGEWOOD

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Born: 5 September 1775 in Granville, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada

Father: Adam HAWKESWORTH

Mother: Elizabeth WEDGEWOOD

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Sarah married Daniel DURLAND 26 November 1798 in Wilmot, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Daniel DURLAND was born abt. 1772 in Wilmot, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada. Daniel died abt. 1842 in Wilmot, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada. Daniel was the child of Daniel DURLAND and Sarah DEMOTT.

Sarah HAWKESWORTH died abt. 1877 in Granville, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Daniel DURLAND
Marriage date: 26 November 1798
Marriage place: Wilmot, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada
Daniel DURLAND was the child of Daniel DURLAND and Sarah DEMOTT

Children of Daniel DURLAND and Sarah HAWKESWORTH

Caroline Amelia DURLAND

Born: 6 April 1817, , Nova Scotia, Canada
Died: 14 December 1900, Nicholsville, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada

Married: George Fox YOUNG 15 October 1836

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Birth — 1775
5 September 1775
Granville, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada

1784 - The bifocal lens is invented (Benjamin Franklin, United States)

The oil lamp is invented (Aimé Argand, Switzerland)

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

1798 Marriage / Partner
Sarah HAWKESWORTH and Daniel DURLAND 26 November 1798, Wilmot, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada

She was 23 years old.

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

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

1817 Birth of Child
Caroline Amelia DURLAND was born 6 April 1817, , Nova Scotia, Canada

Sarah was 41 years old.

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)

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.