David STILES

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13 January 1812 , Hopewell Cape, Albert, New Brunswick, Canada

Died

8 May 1886 , Hopewell Cape, Albert, New Brunswick, Canada

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Elisha STILES Mary G HOAR

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Born: 13 January 1812 in Hopewell Cape, Albert, New Brunswick, Canada

Father: Elisha STILES

Mother: Mary G HOAR

Paternal grandparents: Oliver STILES , Rebecca PECK

Maternal grandparents: David HOAR , Ruth LYNDS (LYNDE)

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David married Mary Ann WRIGHT abt. 1835 . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Mary Ann WRIGHT was born 11 January 1816 in New Brunswick, Canada. Mary Ann died 9 April 1912 in Hopewell Hill, Albert, New Brunswick, Canada. Mary Ann was the child of William WRIGHT and Sarah CLARK.

David STILES died 8 May 1886 in Hopewell Cape, Albert, New Brunswick, Canada.

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Recorded occupation: sea captain

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Mary Ann WRIGHT
Marriage date: abt. 1835
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Mary Ann WRIGHT was the child of William WRIGHT and Sarah CLARK

Children of David STILES and Mary Ann WRIGHT

Henrietta STILES

Born: 13 July 1844, Hopewell Cape, Albert, New Brunswick, Canada
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Married: Henry John BENNETT 22 September 1869

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Birth — 1812
13 January 1812
Hopewell Cape, Albert, New Brunswick, 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)

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)

1844 Birth of Child
Henrietta STILES was born 13 July 1844, Hopewell Cape, Albert, New Brunswick, Canada

David was 32 years old.

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.