Re: Woodworth's of NS, Canada & ND
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In reply to:
Woodworth's of NS canada & ND
3/16/02
Scott:
I'm no relation to your folks, but there is not (at least now) a Fort Emerson in Canada, but there has been a town of Emerson, Manitoba, right on the Canada-USA border, for 130 years, so maybe there used to be a fort there. It makes sense that someone who was living in Emerson might have moved south to ND, so ...
If the place was a fort at some time in the past, do we know if perhaps the Royal Canadian Mounted Police might have built a fort there ? Was your Woodworth maybe an RCMP officer, or a son of one ? After Manitoba became a province of Canada in 1871, there was a lot of concern about American whisky-runners coming north to give 'fire water' to the Indians, so the RCMP (used to be the Northwest Mounted Police then) were sent out west on the new train tracks to keep law and order.
While Woodworth and Henderson are both common names in NS, the one place where they still co-exist side by side would be in the area between Halifax and north and east going via Truro. Some of the places might be Stewiacke, Shubenacadie, New Glasgow, Wentworth, or even at Amherst, just where NS is connected to its neighboring province of New Brunswick. You might want to look up both surnames under - http://canada411.sympatico.ca/eng/person.htmlhttp://canada411.sympatico.ca/eng/person.html - and give some of them a call (NS Time is ONE HOUR LATER than U.S. Eastern [NY] Time).
You could also try:
Colchester County NS - http://www.genealogynet.com/Colchester/http://www.genealogynet.com/Colchester/ - first settled early 1760's by New England Planters who sometimes occupied former Acadian French land after the Expulsion of 1755 - http://www.rootsweb.com/~nscolche/index.htmlhttp://www.rootsweb.com/~nscolche/index.html - also consult the Onslow, NS, Colchester County Book of Records.
The Colchester Historical Society and Museum, 29 Young Street in Truro, Nova Scotia can also give lots of good info (tel: 902-895-6284). Colchester Historical Archives include: - Index to Colchester County Deeds 1771-1870 - Colchester Deeds 1770-1845 - Vital Statistics from newspapers from 1760-1908 - Township Books - Truro, Onslow and Londonderry, Westchester, Cumberland County, Guysborough County, Kings County, Annapolis County - Maps of early Colchester County
- http://www.genealogynet.com/resident/genejane/home.htmhttp://www.genealogynet.com/resident/genejane/home.htm - An excellent new database by Jane Wile on surnames of Colchester County - when you get there, click on the tab for surnames. This will bring up about 2 dozen surnames.
Sara Murray Leonard - [email protected] - she has posted extensive information under - http://www.genforum.comhttp://www.genforum.com - from the "Historical and Genealogical Record of Colchester County (NS)" by Thomas Miller, 1803.
"Historical & Genealogical Record of Colchester County" by Thomas Miller, is also a good reference source.
Cumberland County NS - http://www.rootsweb.com/~nscumber/http://www.rootsweb.com/~nscumber/ - on the border with Province of New Brunswick, only land link from NS to rest of North America. The Tantramar Heritage Trust hosted "Yorkshire 2000", a gathering of the descendants of Yorkshire settlers who emigrated from northern England, going to Nova Scotia during the period 1772-1775. Go to - http://www.tap.nb.ca/tht/york2000.htmlhttp://www.tap.nb.ca/tht/york2000.html - or access it through Cyndi's List for Nova Scotia. In 2000, the Historical Society in Cumberland County was working on having a disk available that has all the cemeteries that were in the Moss Book. Their e-mail is - [email protected] - Also, have a look at the "The Chignecto Isthmus And Its First Settlers" by Howard Trueman at - http://www.intranet.ca/~mmackay/chignecto.htmlhttp://www.intranet.ca/~mmackay/chignecto.html -
French settlements and forts from 1650 to early 1700's became English in period 1748-1758. Many records of French and English settlers including Yorkshire farmers who bought and settled on land around Oxford and Amherst in 1770's [and also next door in Dorchester and Sackville, soon to be part of the new province New Brunswick], and United Empire Loyalists fleeing American Revolution and settling places like Parrsboro in 1784-1790.
NS Regional Libraries - http://www.library.ns.ca/regionals/http://www.library.ns.ca/regionals/ - (for your enquiries, try the ones marked *, or 1 (first choice), 2, 3, etc.:
2 Annapolis Valley Regional Library (a lot of Woodworth names in this area, too)
_ Cape Breton Regional Library
1 Colchester-East Hants Regional Library (for Truro, Stewiacke, Shubenacadie)
1 Cumberland Regional Library (for Amherst, Wentworth)
_ Eastern Counties Regional Library
1 Halifax Regional Library
2 Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library (for New Glasgow)
_ South Shore Regional Library
_ Western Counties Regional Library