LUNENBURG FOUNDING FAMILIES

CONTOIS
other spellings:
COMPTOY, COMPTORS, COMTOIS, Comtoy, CONTAWAY, CONTOIS, CONTOY, Conty, COUNTAWAY, COUNTEWA, COUNTEWAY, COUNTWAY

SOME DOCUMENTS WHERE THIS FAMILY NAME HAS BEEN CITED
"Nova Scotia Immigrants" p 59 [NS2]
"Planters & Pioneers" p 88 [PP2]
"The Foreign Protestants" p 290,
412, 413 [FP2]
"History of the County of Lunenburg" p 70, 503 [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]

Joseph
aged 23 , occupation a Baker , left Switzerland [PL2]
and sailed from Rotterdam, Holland on the Ship Pearl the summer of 1752 [PL2]
He did not appear on the Lunenburg Victualling List of 1756 [VL2]
LAND GRANTS WERE GIVEN OUT AS FOLLOWS
a Town Lot assigned in 1753
Rudolf's Div B-10 [BN2]
Town Lot Registry of 1762
Rudolf's Div B-10 [TR1]
a Garden Lot assigned about 1753
and Registered in 1762
4th Div B-10 [GL1]
a 30 Acre Farm Lot Assigned in 1753
2nd Peninsula B-7 [BN2]
30 Acre Farm Lot Registered in 1760
2nd Peninsula B-8 [30A1]
a 300 Acre Forest Lot Assigned
in one of five draws 1763-6
1st Div E-4 [300A1]
In 1784, these various grants were consolidated
into a formal Township Grant of
360 Acres[TG1]

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

This page was last modified 17 September 1999.

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