Robert HOLMES

Born

July 1801 , England

Died

13 November 1887 , Durham-Sud, Québec, Canada

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Born: July 1801 in England

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Robert married Jane COOKE 10 August 1835 in Drummondville, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Jane COOKE was born abt. 1814 in Canada. Jane died abt. 1899 in Durham-Sud, Québec, Canada (Saint-Fulgence-de-Durham).

Robert HOLMES died 13 November 1887 in Durham-Sud, Québec, Canada .
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

A Glimpse into the Everyday Life of a Québécois Man in the Mid-1800s

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Robert HOLMES married

Jane COOKE
Marriage date: 10 August 1835
Marriage place: Drummondville, Lower Canada

Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec

Children of Robert HOLMES and Jane COOKE

John Alexander HOLMES

Born: 17 May 1836, Durham, Drummond, Lower Canada
Died: 30 July 1934, Averill, Vermont, USA

Married: Sarah Jane PATRICK 6 February 1865

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Birth — 1801
July 1801
England

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

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)

1835 Marriage / Partner
Robert HOLMES and Jane COOKE 10 August 1835, Drummondville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Frédéric-de-Drummondville)

He was 34 years old.

1836 Birth of Child
John Alexander HOLMES was born 17 May 1836, Durham, Drummond, Québec, Canada

Robert was 34 years old.

1839 - February 24 - Steam shovel patented by William Smith Otis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

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)

1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)