LUNENBURG FOUNDING FAMILIES

GERTZEN
other spellings:
GERTZENS, GETSON, GETZEN

SOME DOCUMENTS WHERE THIS FAMILY NAME HAS BEEN CITED
"Nova Scotia Immigrants" p 91 [NS2]
"Planters & Pioneers" p 135 [PP2]
"The Foreign Protestants" p 290 [FP2]
"History of the County of Lunenburg" p 180, 441 [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]
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Gelle
aged 45, occupation a Joiner, left E Friesland [PL2]
and sailed from Rotterdam, Holland on the Ship Speedwell 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
Creighton's Div ? [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
LaHave C-1 [BN2]
30 Acre Farm Lot Registered in 1760
South Div B-6 [30A1]
a 300 Acre Forest Lot Assigned
in one of five draws 1763-6
2nd Div H-13 [300A1]
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 1 Mar January 1999.

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