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 >