Silas Rockwell PROSSER

Born

29 January 1833 , Wakefield, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

Died

12 June 1895 , Waterville, Wakefield, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

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Jeremiah PROSSER Elizabeth ROCKWELL

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Born: 29 January 1833 in Wakefield, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

Father: Jeremiah PROSSER

Mother: Elizabeth ROCKWELL

Paternal grandparents: Jeremiah PROSSER , Charlotte UNKNOWN

Maternal grandparents: Benjamin ROCKWELL , Susan Ann TAPLEY

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Silas Rockwell married Elizabeth HAVENS abt. 1858 in New Brunswick, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Elizabeth HAVENS was born 30 September 1843 in Wakefield, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada. Elizabeth died 15 February 1925 in Waterville, Wakefield, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada. Elizabeth was the child of Samuel HAVENS and Susannah KINNEY.

Silas Rockwell PROSSER died 12 June 1895 in Waterville, Wakefield, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada.
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Silas Rockwell PROSSER married

Elizabeth HAVENS
Marriage date: abt. 1858
Marriage place: , New Brunswick, Canada
Elizabeth HAVENS was the child of Samuel HAVENS and Susannah KINNEY

Children of Silas Rockwell PROSSER and Elizabeth HAVENS

Georgianne PROSSER

Born: 10 June 1858, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: 17 June 1942, Beechwood, Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

Married: Howard Stanley BROAD 1880

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Birth — 1833
29 January 1833
Wakefield, Carleton, New Brunswick, 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

1858 Birth of Child
Georgianne PROSSER was born 10 June 1858, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

Silas Rockwell was 25 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.