LUNENBURG FOUNDING FAMILIES

BERGHAUS
other spellings:
BARKHAUS, BARKHAUSE, BARKHOSE, BARKHOUS, BARKHOUSE, BARKOUSE, Berkhaus, BERKHAUSE, BERKHAUSEN, Bugaus

SOME DOCUMENTS WHERE THIS FAMILY NAME HAS BEEN CITED
"Nova Scotia Immigrants" p 30/290 [NS2]
"Planters & Pioneers" p 46 [PP2]
"The Foreign Protestants" p 288 [FP2]
"History of the County of Lunenburg" p 70, 381 [HL2]
Birth Records [DS2]
Marriage Records [DS2]
Death Records [DS2]
SSGS Cemetery Inscriptions [CI2]
Probated Will(s) [PW1]
Halifax Obits 1962-92 [HO2]
on 1864 AF Church & Co Map [CM1]
in Census 1871 [CC2]
in "Bell's Notes" [BN2]

Johann Nicolaus
aged 36 , occupation a Farmer , left Hesse-Darmstadt Germany [PL2]
and sailed from Rotterdam, Holland on the Ship Sally the summer of 1752 [PL2]
He appeared on the Lunenburg Victualling List of 1756 [VL2]
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LAND GRANTS WERE GIVEN OUT AS FOLLOWS
a Town Lot assigned in 1753
Rudolf's Div G-2 [BN2]
Town Lot Registry of 1762
Rudolf's Div G-2 [TR1]
a Garden Lot assigned about 1753
and Registered in 1762
not found
a 30 Acre Farm Lot Assigned in 1753
Mahone Bay C-16 [BN2]
30 Acre Farm Lot Registered in 1760
Mahone Bay C-16
North West Range B-48 [30A1]
a 300 Acre Forest Lot Assigned
in one of five draws 1763-6
not found
In 1784, these various grants were consolidated
into a formal Township Grant of
60 Acres [TG1]

Details on Individuals in the first generation of the family
will appear here later.

This page was last modified 16 September 1999.

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