Lorinda SWEET

Born

6 August 1807 , Canada

Died

30 March 1881 , Brome, Quebec, Canada

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Philip SWEET Elizabeth SHERWILL

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Born: 6 August 1807 in Canada

Father: Philip SWEET

Mother: Elizabeth SHERWILL

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Lorinda married Zephaniah GRIMES 27 November 1825 in Dunham, Brome-Missisquoi, Quebec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 6 children.
Zephaniah GRIMES was born June 1803 in Sharon, Vermont, USA. Zephaniah died 1 February 1885 in Brome, Quebec, Canada. Zephaniah was the child of Zephaniah GRIMES and Abigail HUNTER.

Lorinda SWEET died 30 March 1881 in Brome, Quebec, Canada.
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Zephaniah GRIMES
Marriage date: 27 November 1825
Marriage place: Dunham, Brome-Missisquoi, Quebec, Canada
Zephaniah GRIMES was the child of Zephaniah GRIMES and Abigail HUNTER

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Children of Zephaniah GRIMES and Lorinda SWEET

Sarah-Eliza GRIMES

Born: abt. 1826, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 29 July 1906, , Prince Edward Island, Canada

Married: Orange Nelson MCPHERSON 1850

Rosilla GRIMES

Born: abt. 1828, Brome, Quebec, Canada
Died: ,

Diantha Ann GRIMES

Born: abt. 1830, Brome, Quebec, Canada
Died: 28 December 1882, Maine, Otter Tail, Minnesota, USA

Married: John Milton BICKFORD 5 January 1852 Place: Nashua, New Hampshire, USA (Dunstable)

Drusilla Lorinda GRIMES

Born: 13 February 1831, Brome, Quebec, Canada
Died: 12 December 1921, Vancouver, Washington, USA

Henry-Marshall GRIMES

Born: 2 July 1836, Sutton, Lower Canada
Died: 19 July 1891, Brome, Quebec, Canada

Married: Julia Ann DAMON 5 June 1860

Joseph Lorenzo GRIMES

Born: 23 November 1849, Brome, Quebec, Canada
Died: 23 February 1936, Brome, Quebec, Canada

Married: Margaret Ann FLETCHER 2 August 1869

Married: Nancy Jane CHURCH 1875

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Birth — 1807
6 August 1807
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)

1825 Marriage / Partner
Lorinda SWEET and Zephaniah GRIMES 27 November 1825, Dunham, Brome-Missisquoi, Quebec, Canada

She was 18 years old.

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

1831 Birth of Child
Drusilla Lorinda GRIMES was born 13 February 1831, Brome, Quebec, Canada

Lorinda was 23 years old.

1836 Birth of Child
Henry-Marshall GRIMES was born 2 July 1836, Sutton, Québec, Canada (Sutton Flats)

Lorinda was 28 years old.

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)

1849 Birth of Child
Joseph Lorenzo GRIMES was born 23 November 1849, Brome, Quebec, Canada

Lorinda was 42 years old.

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

1852 Marriage of Child
Diantha Ann GRIMES married 5 January 1852, Nashua, New Hampshire, USA (Dunstable) to John Milton BICKFORD

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.