Margaret ROACH

Born

16 July 1826 , Montréal, Lower Canada

Died

16 November 1882 , Montréal, Québec, Canada

Age: 56

Margaret married Thomas KELLY . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Thomas KELLY was born abt. 1825 in County Cork, Ireland. Thomas died abt. 1875 in Montréal, Québec, Canada . Thomas was the child of William KELLY and Catherine BYRNE .

Parents & Family of Margaret ROACH

Parents of Margaret ROACH

Father

John ROACH

Mother

Mary COLLINS

Grandparents of Margaret ROACH

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Spouses, Marriages & Children of Margaret ROACH

Margaret ROACH married

Thomas KELLY
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Thomas KELLY was the child of William KELLY and Catherine BYRNE

Children of Thomas KELLY and Margaret ROACH

William KELLY

Born: August 11, 1852, Montréal, Canada East
Died: April 8, 1914, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Married: Ellen MURTAGH

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Québec Genealogy Notes

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Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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1826 Baptism

July 16, 1826
Margaret Roach, daughter of JOhn Roach of Montreal and Mary Collins

Name: Roach
[Margaret Roach]
Event: Baptême (Baptism)
Baptism Year: 1826
Baptism Location: Montréal, Québec (Quebec)
Religion: Anglican
Place of Worship or Institution: Anglican Christ Church Cathedral,Actes

Source / record details
Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

Birth — 1826
16 July 1826
Montréal, Lower Canada

Baptism

Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

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.

1852 Birth of Child
William KELLY was born August 11, 1852, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

Margaret was 26 years old.

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.