Elisha-Joseph FESSENDEN

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18 February 1837 , Québec, Lower Canada

Died

18 January 1896 , Ancaster, Ontario, Canada

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Elisha Moss FESSENDEN Alice Elsie TIBBITS

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Born: 18 February 1837 in Québec, Lower Canada

Father: Elisha Moss FESSENDEN

Mother: Alice Elsie TIBBITS

Paternal grandparents: Ebenezer FESSENDEN , Hannah MOSS

Maternal grandparents: Joseph TIBBITTS , Nancy ELDRIDGE

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Elisha-Joseph married Clementina TRENHOLME abt. 1865 in Bolton, Brome, Quebec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 4 children.
Clementina TRENHOLME was born 4 May 1843 in Saint-Félix-de-Kingsey, Drummond, Québec, Canada (Kingsey). Clementina died 14 September 1918 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Clementina was the child of Edward TRENHOLME and Mary Ann RIDLEY.

Elisha-Joseph FESSENDEN died 18 January 1896 in Ancaster, Ontario, Canada.
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Recorded occupation: Reverend

Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

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Spouse & Children of Elisha-Joseph FESSENDEN

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Elisha-Joseph FESSENDEN married

Clementina TRENHOLME
Marriage date: abt. 1865
Marriage place: Bolton, Brome, Quebec, Canada
Clementina TRENHOLME was the child of Edward TRENHOLME and Mary Ann RIDLEY

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Children of Elisha-Joseph FESSENDEN and Clementina TRENHOLME

Kenneth Harcourt FESSENDEN

Born: 15 April 1858, Bolton, Brome, Quebec, Canada
Died: 3 July 1943, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada

Reginald Aubrey FESSENDEN

Born: 6 October 1866, East Bolton, Quebec, Canada
Died: 22 July 1932, Bermuda

Married: Helen May TROTT 21 September 1890 Place: Manhattan, New York, USA (New York City) (New Amsterdam) (Washington Heights)

Cortez Ridley Trenholme FESSENDEN

Born: 9 April 1870, Bolton, Brome, Quebec, Canada
Died: 21 September 1938, Delhi, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada

Lionel Victor FESSENDEN

Born: 31 May 1872, Caledon, Peel, Ontario, Canada
Died: 21 September 1895, Ancaster, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada

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Birth — 1837
18 February 1837
Québec, Lower Canada

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

1858 Birth of Child
Kenneth Harcourt FESSENDEN was born 15 April 1858, Bolton, Brome, Quebec, Canada

Elisha-Joseph was 21 years old.

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1866 Birth of Child
Reginald Aubrey FESSENDEN was born 6 October 1866, East Bolton, Quebec, Canada

Elisha-Joseph was 29 years old.

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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1870 Birth of Child
Cortez Ridley Trenholme FESSENDEN was born 9 April 1870, Bolton, Brome, Quebec, Canada

Elisha-Joseph was 33 years old.

1872 Birth of Child
Lionel Victor FESSENDEN was born 31 May 1872, Caledon, Peel, Ontario, Canada

Elisha-Joseph was 35 years old.

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1890 Marriage of Child
Reginald Aubrey FESSENDEN married 21 September 1890, Manhattan, New York, USA (New York City) (New Amsterdam) (Washington Heights) to Helen May TROTT

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1894 - December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Prime Minister of Canada