LUNENBURG FOUNDING FAMILIES

GROSS
other spellings:
CROSS?, GRASS?, GROSSE

SOME DOCUMENTS WHERE THIS FAMILY NAME HAS BEEN CITED
"Nova Scotia Immigrants" p 98 [NS2]
"Planters & Pioneers" p 143 [PP2]
not in "The Foreign Protestants"
"History of the County of Lunenburg" p 70, 89, 275, 329, 446, 456 [HL2]
no Birth Records
no Marriage Records
no Death Records
no SSGS Cemetery Inscriptions
Probated Will(s) [PW1]
Halifax Obits 1962-92 [HO2]
on 1864 AF Church & Co Map [CM1]
in Census 1871 [CC2]
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Oswald
aged 40 , occupation a Farmer , left the Palatinate region of Germany [PL2]
and sailed from Rotterdam, Holland on the Ship Pearl the summer of 1751 [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
not found
Town Lot Registry of 1762
Steinfort's Div F-12 (to children) [TR1]
a Garden Lot assigned about 1753
and Registered in 1762
5th Div A-10(vacant; September 1762;
land reverted to A WIEDERHOLT (Crown?) ) [GL1]
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
not found

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

This page was last modified 1 Mar 1999.

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