Miriam BARBOUR

Born

22 December 1820 , Québec, Lower Canada

Died

11 October 1888 , Parry Sound, Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada

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

Miriam married William Coenradt TENEYCKE abt. 1845 . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
William Coenradt TENEYCKE was born 20 July 1824 in Albany, New York, USA . William Coenradt died 16 November 1875 in Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada.

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Spouses, Marriages & Children of Miriam BARBOUR

Miriam BARBOUR married

William Coenradt TENEYCKE
Marriage date: abt. 1845
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Children of William Coenradt TENEYCKE and Miriam BARBOUR

Charles Wesley TENEYCKE

Born: 25 July 1859, St. Vincent, Simcoe, Canada West
Died: 3 January 1914, McKellar, Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada

Married: Annie Caroline REEKIE 26 May 1881

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Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1820
22 December 1820
Québec, Lower Canada

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

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

1859 Birth of Child
Charles Wesley TENEYCKE was born 25 July 1859, St. Vincent, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada

Miriam was 38 years old.

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.