Pierre SWEENEY

Born

22 March 1796 , St-Michel de Percé, Quebec, Canada

Died

24 October 1886 , Grande Riviere, Quebec, Canada

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Bernard SWEENEY (MCSWEENEY)Marie BOURGET

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Born: 22 March 1796 in St-Michel de Percé, Quebec, Canada

Father: Bernard SWEENEY (MCSWEENEY)

Mother: Marie BOURGET

Maternal grandparents: Louis BOURGET , Marie-Louise CHOUINARD

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

Pierre married Suzanne BEAUDIN 28 August 1827 in St-Michel, Percé, Québec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Suzanne BEAUDIN was born 3 February 1797 in Grande Riviere, Quebec, Canada. Suzanne was the child of Abraham BEAUDIN and Marie-Anne METHOT.

Pierre SWEENEY died 24 October 1886 in Grande Riviere, Quebec, Canada.
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Recorded occupation: Pêcheur and Cultivateur

The farmer, cultivateur, or cultivator, was a person who cultivated and exploited the land in order to get a crop.

He may have been the proprietor of his own parcel(s) of land. He could, depending on the land size, have employed other agricultural workers. If he didn't own the land, he was called a tenant farmer.
Source: tfcq.ca

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Spouse & Children of Pierre SWEENEY

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Pierre SWEENEY married

Suzanne BEAUDIN
Marriage date: 28 August 1827
Marriage place: St-Michel, Percé, Québec, Canada
Suzanne BEAUDIN was the child of Abraham BEAUDIN and Marie-Anne METHOT

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Children of Pierre SWEENEY and Suzanne BEAUDIN

Helene SWEENEY

Born: abt. 1835, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Honore TREMBLAY 13 August 1861

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Birth — 1796
22 March 1796
St-Michel de Percé, Quebec, Canada

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

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)

1827 Marriage / Partner
Pierre SWEENEY and Suzanne BEAUDIN 28 August 1827, St-Michel, Percé, Québec, Canada

He was 31 years old.

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.