Brief Life History of Grace
When Grace Dennison was born on 9 January 1803, in York, New Brunswick, Canada, her father, Private Michael Dennison, was 60 and her mother, Mary Crawford, was 41. She married Edward A Barrett on 29 December 1825, in Saint Marys, York, New Brunswick, Canada. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 17 May 1892, in Tracey Mills, Wicklow, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada, at the age of 89, and was buried in Tracy, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada.
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- Grase Dennison, "New Brunswick Provincial Marriages 1789-1950"
- Grace Dennison in entry for John Barrett, "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921"
- Grace Barrett (born Dennison), 'Geni World Family Tree' on MyHeritage
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1867 · British North America Act
The British North America Act or Constitution Act of 1867 caused three British colonies, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Canada to be united as one under the name Canada. Until this point New Brunswick had been the British crown colony.
1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
1880 · Legislature in Fredericton Destoryed by Fire
On February 25, 1880, the legislature building in Frederiction was destroyed by fire. The builiding was completely made of wood meaning that there was nothing left of it. The chair that the speaker used and a marble top table were all that remained.
Name Meaning
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Denis (see Dennis ) + -son. Compare Tennyson .
English (of Norman origin): from Anglo-Norman French deinzein, a burgess who enjoyed the privileges of those living deinz la cité ‘within the city’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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