Charles Gaitor DELONG

(b. 18 March 1795 , Kings, New Brunswick, Canada d. 14 September 1885 , Summerfield, Wicklow, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada )

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Charles Gaitor DELONG was born 18 March 1795 in Kings, New Brunswick, Canada

Charles Gaitor DELONG was the child of Aaron B DELONG and Mary KIERSTEAD

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Charles Gaitor married Cornelia Burton MCDONALD 10 July 1817 in Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Cornelia Burton MCDONALD was born abt. 1801 in Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada. Cornelia Burton died abt. 1861 in Little River, Elgin, Albert, New Brunswick, Canada. Cornelia Burton was the child of Benjamin MCDONALD and Permillea CHASE.

Charles Gaitor DELONG died 14 September 1885 in Summerfield, Wicklow, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada.
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Charles Gaitor DELONG married

Cornelia Burton MCDONALD-- Date: 10 July 1817 Place: Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada
Cornelia Burton MCDONALD was the child of Benjamin MCDONALD and Permillea CHASE

Children of Charles Gaitor DELONG and Cornelia Burton MCDONALD:

Esther J DELONG (b.abt. 1838, Ripples, Sheffield, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada d. 22 January 1913, Bridgewater, Maine, USA)
m. Joseph H MACDONALD 1860

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1795 Birth
18 March 1795
Kings, New Brunswick, Canada

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1817 Marriage / Partner
Charles Gaitor DELONG and Cornelia Burton MCDONALD 10 July 1817, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada

He was 22 years old.

1818 - Canada's border is defined as the 49th Parallel from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains.

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)

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.