Margaret Jane GREENO

Born

abt. 1838 , Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada

Died

22 June 1872 , Mount Denson, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada

Margaret Jane married George Benjamin SWEET 15 December 1859 in Kempt, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
George Benjamin SWEET was born 22 February 1837 in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada . George Benjamin died 20 December 1906 in Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada. George Benjamin was the child of Benjamin SWEET and Jane Rachel HUNTER .

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Margaret Jane GREENO married

George Benjamin SWEET
Marriage date: 15 December 1859
Marriage place: Kempt, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada
George Benjamin SWEET was the child of Benjamin SWEET and Jane Rachel HUNTER

Children of George Benjamin SWEET and Margaret Jane GREENO

Edith Eugene "Jean" SWEET

Born: 14 September 1862, Mount Denson, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada
Died: 1 November 1937, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Married: Philip William CROWELL 10 July 1880

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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 Marriage / Partner
Margaret Jane GREENO and George Benjamin SWEET 15 December 1859, Kempt, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada

1862 Birth of Child
Edith Eugene "Jean" SWEET was born 14 September 1862, Mount Denson, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada

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.