LUNENBURG FOUNDING FAMILIES

FORSCHNER
other spellings:
Forrokner, Forchinis, FORSTER, Foshner, VORSNER?

SOME DOCUMENTS WHERE THIS FAMILY NAME HAS BEEN CITED
not in "Nova Scotia Immigrants"
"Planters & Pioneers" p 125 [PP2]
"The Foreign Protestants" p 287 [FP2]
not in "History of the County of Lunenburg"
Birth Records [DS2]
Marriage Records [DS2]
no Death Records
no SSGS Cemetery Inscriptions
no Probated Will
no Halifax Obits 1962-92
not on 1864 AF Church & Co Map
in Census 1871? [CC2]
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Johannes
age ?, occupation a Smith, left the Palatinate region of Germany [PL2]
and sailed from Rotterdam, Holland on the Ship Murdoch the summer of 1751 [PL2]
He appeared on the Lunenburg Victualling List of 1756 [VL2]
LAND GRANTS WERE GIVEN OUT AS FOLLOWS
a Town Lot assigned in 1753
Moreau's Div C-7 (John FORSTER) [BN2]
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
Mahone Bay B-9 [BN2]
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
not found

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

This page was last modified 21 Feb 1999.

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