Phoebe PURDY

Born

7 March 1795 , Westchester Station, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada

Died

24 May 1882 , Salem, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Gabriel T PURDY Esther ANGEVINE

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Born: 7 March 1795 in Westchester Station, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada

Father: Gabriel T PURDY

Mother: Esther ANGEVINE

Paternal grandparents: Samuel PURDY , Winifred Wright GRIFFIN

Maternal grandparents: Louis (Lewis) ANGEVINE , Phoebe HARRIS

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Phoebe married Thomas Richard BLACK 17 December 1811 in Nova Scotia, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Thomas Richard BLACK was born 20 July 1785 in Salem, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada. Thomas Richard died 25 April 1838 in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence). Thomas Richard was the child of Richard BLACK and Sarah "Sally" CHAPMAN.

Phoebe PURDY died 24 May 1882 in Salem, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Phoebe PURDY married

Thomas Richard BLACK
Marriage date: 17 December 1811
Marriage place: , Nova Scotia, Canada
Thomas Richard BLACK was the child of Richard BLACK and Sarah "Sally" CHAPMAN

Children of Thomas Richard BLACK and Phoebe PURDY

Sarah Jane BLACK

Born: abt. 1822, Salem, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
Died: 15 June 1907, Lower Wentworth, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada

Married: James BIGNEY 1841

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Birth — 1795
7 March 1795
Westchester Station, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada

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

1811 Marriage / Partner
Phoebe PURDY and Thomas Richard BLACK 17 December 1811, , Nova Scotia, Canada

She was 16 years old.

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

1838 Death of Spouse/Partner
Thomas Richard BLACK died 25 April 1838, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence)

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.