Samuel Cunard [SEP] date of death
Samuel Cunard
Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Baronet (21 November 1787 – 28 April 1865), was a Canadian shipping magnate, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who founded the Cunard Line. He was the son of a master carpenter and timber merchant who had fled the American Revolution and settled in Halifax.
Family and early life.
Samuel Cunard was the second son of Abraham Cunard (1756–1824), a Quaker and Margaret Murphy (1758-1821), a Roman Catholic. The Cunards were a Quaker
own ventures. Abraham's son Joseph Cunard became a major timber merchant and politician in New Brunswick. However it was Abraham's second son Samuel Cunard who emerged as the leader in the family firm. Using his father's company as a base, Samuel Cunard launched his own shipping empire after his father's death which eventually became the famous Cunard Line.
Abraham Cunard retired in 1822 and moved to the family's country home at Rawdon, Nova Scotia, in East Hants County. His wife Margaret had died in 1821.