Margaret DONNELLY

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12 May 1819 , Upper Canada

Died

22 April 1885 , Lancaster, Ontario, Canada

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Born: 12 May 1819 in Upper Canada

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Margaret married James MEAGHER abt. 1834 . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
James MEAGHER was born 23 April 1812 in Tipperary, Ireland. James died 17 August 1884 in Lancaster, Ontario, Canada.

Margaret DONNELLY died 22 April 1885 in Lancaster, Ontario, Canada.
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James MEAGHER
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Margaret MEAGHER

Born: October 15, 1851, Camden East, Canada West
Died: November 7, 1932, Stormont, Ontario, Canada

Married: Daniel Alexander DICKSON 9 June 1873 Place: St Albans, Vermont, USA

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Birth — 1819
12 May 1819
Upper Canada

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

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)

1851 Birth of Child
Margaret MEAGHER was born October 15, 1851, Camden East, Ontario, Canada

Margaret was 32 years old.

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.