LUNENBURG FOUNDING FAMILIES

CORKUM / GORKUM
other spellings:
CORCKEM, CORCUM, CORKAM, CORKIM, CORKUN, GORCHAM, Gorhum, GORCKAM, GORKHAM, GORCKUM, GORCUM, KURKUM, Von GORCKUM

SOME DOCUMENTS WHERE THIS FAMILY NAME HAS BEEN CITED
"Nova Scotia Immigrants" p 94 [NS2]
"Planters & Pioneers" p 90 [PP2]
"The Foreign Protestants" p 287 [FP2]
"History of the County of Lunenburg" p 71, 274, 285, 312, 411, 517, 518, 557 [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]

Wilhelm
aged 36 , occupation a Farmer , left Westhoffen Germany [PL2]
and sailed from Rotterdam, Holland on the Ship Pearl the summer of 1752 [PL2]
He appeared on the Lunenburg Victualling List of 1756 [VL2]
LAND GRANTS WERE GIVEN OUT AS FOLLOWS
a Town Lot assigned in 1753
Zouberbuhler's Div F-7 [BN2]
Town Lot Registry of 1762
Zouberbuhler's Div F-7 [TR1]
a Garden Lot assigned about 1753
and Registered in 1762
2nd Div C-12 [GL1] (vacant; September 1762;
land reverted to A WIEDERHOLT (Crown?) )
a 30 Acre Farm Lot Assigned in 1753
South Div E-1 [BN2]
30 Acre Farm Lot Registered in 1760
South Div E-1 [30A1]
a 300 Acre Forest Lot Assigned
in one of five draws 1763-6
1st Div E-6 [300A1]
In 1784, these various grants were consolidated
into a formal Township Grant of
not found

Peter
LAND GRANTS WERE GIVEN OUT AS FOLLOWS
a Town Lot assigned in 1753
not found
Town Lot Registry of 1762
not found
a Garden Lot assigned about 1753
and Registered in 1762
not found
a 30 Acre Farm Lot Assigned in 1753
not found
30 Acre Farm Lot Registered in 1760
not found
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
330 Acres [TG1]

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

For more information on this family, see
Bill Sherman's, Dan Smith's, Don Shankle's,
Blair Whynacht's, Carole Garron(?)'s, Nancy Shaver's
and Virginia Basken's Web Page.

This page was last modified 8 Feb 2000.

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