Isabella Jane MCHEFFEY

(b. abt. 1803 , Nova Scotia, Canada d. 11 May 1880 , Gays River, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada )

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Isabella Jane MCHEFFEY was born abt. 1803 in Nova Scotia, Canada

Isabella Jane MCHEFFEY was the child of James MCHEFFEY and Mary Ann HAMILTON and the grandchild of: (paternal) Richard MCHEFFEY and Mary CAULFIELD (maternal) William HAMILTON and Isabella CLARKE

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Isabella Jane married John MCHEFFEY abt. 1823 in Nova Scotia, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
John MCHEFFEY was born January 1800 in Nova Scotia, Canada. John died 3 September 1890 in Gays River, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. John was the child of William MCHEFFEY and Elizabeth Ann CHURCH.

Isabella Jane MCHEFFEY died 11 May 1880 in Gays River, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Isabella Jane MCHEFFEY married

John MCHEFFEY-- Date: abt. 1823 Place: , Nova Scotia, Canada
John MCHEFFEY was the child of William MCHEFFEY and Elizabeth Ann CHURCH

Children of John MCHEFFEY and Isabella Jane MCHEFFEY:

Elizabeth Church MCHEFFEY (b.October 1831, Gay's River, Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 24 March 1919, Lake Egmont, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
m. William KELLOUGH 8 January 1851

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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

1831 Birth of Child
Elizabeth Church MCHEFFEY was born October 1831, Gay's River, Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia, Canada

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.