Samuel cunard biography

          Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Baronet (21 November – 28 April ), was a British-Canadian shipping magnate, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who founded the.!

          CUNARD, Sir SAMUEL, merchant, shipowner, and entrepreneur; b. 21 Nov.

          1787 at Halifax, N.S., second child of Abraham Cunard and Margaret Murphy; m. 4 Feb.

          CUNARD, Sir SAMUEL, merchant, shipowner, and entrepreneur; b.

        1. Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Baronet, was a British-Canadian shipping magnate, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who founded the Cunard Line, establishing the first scheduled steamship connection with North America.
        2. Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Baronet (21 November – 28 April ), was a British-Canadian shipping magnate, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who founded the.
        3. British merchant and shipowner who founded the first regular Atlantic steamship line.
        4. Sir Samuel Cunard, merchant, shipowner (b at Halifax 21 Nov ; d at London, Eng 28 Apr ).

          5. 1815 at Halifax Susan Duffus (1795–1828), and they had two sons and seven daughters; d. 28 April 1865 in London, England.

          Samuel Cunard’s father was a descendant of German Quakers who had immigrated to Pennsylvania in the 17th century.

          His mother’s family had immigrated from Ireland to South Carolina in 1773 and to Nova Scotia with the loyalists a decade later. In 1783 Abraham Cunard came with the British forces to Halifax where he was employed as a foreman carpenter in the army.

          On 7 Oct. 1799 Edward Augustus*, Duke of Kent, commander-in-chief in British North America, appointed Abraham master carpenter to the Contingent Department of the Royal Engineers at the Halifax garrison; he continued to work for the army until his retirement on 22 Oct. 1822.

          Abraham Cunard