Benoni GOGUEN

(b. 2 July 1793 , Cocagne, New Brunswick, Canada d. 28 September 1881 , Cocagne, New Brunswick, Canada )

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Benoni GOGUEN was born 2 July 1793 in Cocagne, New Brunswick, Canada

Benoni GOGUEN was the child of Joseph GOGUEN and Anne LEBLANC and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph GOGUEN and Anne Nanon ARSENAULT (ARCENAULT) (ARSENEAU) (maternal) Charles LEBLANC and Marie Josephte BARRIEAU

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Benoni married Marie Helene SAVOIE 29 April 1817 in Bouctouche, Kent, New Brunswick, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie Helene SAVOIE was born abt. 1792 Marie Helene died 23 March 1867 in Cocagne, New Brunswick, Canada. Marie Helene was the child of Jean SAVOIE and Marie ALLAIN (ALAIN).

Benoni GOGUEN died 28 September 1881 in Cocagne, New Brunswick, Canada.
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Benoni GOGUEN married

Marie Helene SAVOIE-- Date: 29 April 1817 Place: Bouctouche, Kent, New Brunswick, Canada
Marie Helene SAVOIE was the child of Jean SAVOIE and Marie ALLAIN (ALAIN)

Children of Benoni GOGUEN and Marie Helene SAVOIE:

Basile GOGUEN (b.4 August 1818, Cocagne, New Brunswick, Canada d. , )

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1793 Birth
2 July 1793
Cocagne, New Brunswick, Canada

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

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

1817 Marriage / Partner
Benoni GOGUEN and Marie Helene SAVOIE 29 April 1817, Bouctouche, Kent, New Brunswick, Canada

He was 23 years old.

1818 - Canada's border is defined as the 49th Parallel from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains.

1818 Birth of Child
Basile GOGUEN was born 4 August 1818, Cocagne, New Brunswick, Canada

Benoni was 25 years old.

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.