The births / baptismals, deaths and marriages for Grosvenor, for the most part, are held at the glebe house of St. Lawence's Parish in Mulgrave, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia. Regards, Lloyd (BOUCHER) ----- Original Message ----- From: "scanbar" <scanbar@prodigy.net> To: <can-ns-antigonish@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [Antigonish] Grosvenor (was Important notice re: Casket obits) > Where are the Vital Records kept for Guysborough County? I am > specifically > interested in Grosvenor records pre-1940. > > Thanks you > Barbara in Massachusetts > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert Brown" <robertcedric2001@yahoo.ca> > To: <can-ns-antigonish@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 4:27 PM > Subject: Re: [Antigonish] Grosvenor (was Important notice re: Casket > obits) > > >>I believe that Grosvenor was annexed to Antigonish County in the 1980's. >> >> Linda Darling <ldarling1@comcast.net> wrote: Barbara, >> >> I'm not sure if you meant to address Ray or me, but hopefully I can >> help answer your query. >> >> Grosvenor is in Guysborough County (right near the Antigonish County >> border) >> >>>From Place Names and Places : >> >> This settlement is located about a mile north west of Summers Lake, >> west of the strait of Canso, in eastern Nova Scotia. It was perhaps >> named after Robert Grosvenor, a lord of the Admiralty or Field >> Marshal Thomas Grosvenor. Lots of land were granted to: Robert and >> Thomas Kenny and John Tote in 1828; Peter and James Somers, Thomas >> Smith and Michael Flinn in 1829 and Daniel McKeough and John Wheaton >> in 1831. Some of these people probably settled soon after the grants >> were made. >> >> A postal way office was established July 1, 1871, with Samuel O'Neil >> as postmaster. Farming and lumbering are the basic industries. >> >> Two newspapers for Guysborough County are the Canso Breeze and the >> Guysborough County Advocate. >> A look at the Guysborough GenWeb site shows some transcriptions >> from The Canso Breeze 1922 - 1931. A search may turn up the names >> you are interested in. >> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~guys/cansobreeze.html >> >> Here is the link for the main >> page. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Eguys/index.html >> >> Good luck with your search! >> >> Best, >> Linda >> >> >> At 11:57 AM 5/22/2007, you wrote: >>>Hi Ray, >>> >>>Where can I find obits dating back to the 1930 and before for people >>>living >>>in Grosvenor? I have been trying to find records and I am not contacting >>>the correct places as Grosvenor I don't know which County Grosvenor is >>>in. >>>I am looking for O'Neil's and Tate's. >>> >>>Thank you for all the work you do helping people. >>>Barbara >> >> -- >> This mailing list is for Antigonish County, NS, genealogy. It is >> gatewayed >> to the Antigonish County message board. More information: >> http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/CAN/CAN-NS-ANTIGONISH.html >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~nsantigo/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> CAN-NS-ANTIGONISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> --------------------------------- >> Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the >> boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail >> -- >> This mailing list is for Antigonish County, NS, genealogy. It is >> gatewayed to the Antigonish County message board. More information: >> http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/CAN/CAN-NS-ANTIGONISH.html >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~nsantigo/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> CAN-NS-ANTIGONISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > -- > This mailing list is for Antigonish County, NS, genealogy. It is > gatewayed to the Antigonish County message board. More information: > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/CAN/CAN-NS-ANTIGONISH.html > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nsantigo/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CAN-NS-ANTIGONISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.8.9/834 - Release Date: 05/06/2007 > 2:38 PM > >