Andrew Lovitt SWIM

Born

15 May 1829 , Cape Sable Island, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada

Died

10 February 1881 , Clarks Harbour, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada

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John Lewis SWIM Sarah PENNEY

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Born: 15 May 1829 in Cape Sable Island, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada

Father: John Lewis SWIM

Mother: Sarah PENNEY

Paternal grandparents: Michael SWIM , Letitia DOANE

Maternal grandparents: Daniel PENNEY , Elizabeth CROWELL

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Andrew Lovitt married Sarah Jane NICKERSON 10 May 1855 in Cape Sable Island, Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Sarah Jane NICKERSON was born 27 November 1834 in Clarks Harbour, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada. Sarah Jane died 27 June 1928 in Clarks Harbour, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada. Sarah Jane was the child of Judah NICKERSON and Elizabeth "Betsey" SMITH.

Andrew Lovitt SWIM died 10 February 1881 in Clarks Harbour, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Sarah Jane NICKERSON
Marriage date: 10 May 1855
Marriage place: Cape Sable Island, Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada
Sarah Jane NICKERSON was the child of Judah NICKERSON and Elizabeth "Betsey" SMITH

Children of Andrew Lovitt SWIM and Sarah Jane NICKERSON

Elizabeth Anne SWIM

Born: 29 December 1869, Clarks Harbour, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada
Died: 28 February 1952, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Married: William Black SMITH 2 January 1888

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Birth — 1829
15 May 1829
Cape Sable Island, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada

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.

1855 Marriage / Partner
Andrew Lovitt SWIM and Sarah Jane NICKERSON 10 May 1855, Cape Sable Island, Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada

He was 26 years old.

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.

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.

1869 Birth of Child
Elizabeth Anne SWIM was born 29 December 1869, Clarks Harbour, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada

Andrew Lovitt was 40 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)