Nova Scotia Immigrants to 1867 Volume 2

[wildbee]

Morning JDC,
I am not sure at this stage of the game whether I have Balcombs in my family that moved to Nova Scotia. I am very vertical in my family genealogy... I don't stray far from the direct line back to one ancestor or another... It is only because I am rather new at this. But the world was small back then and the chances are we may have had had a Balcombs..... But Bunkie wrote a few days ago and said we are related to each other by one of our Lovejoys marrying on of your Holts. I will keep my eyes out for a Balcombs

[J.J.]

Your neice, your neice!!!  ...the reading can wait, it won't get any older waiting for you to read it....But...the wee ones will sprout before your eyes.

I thought you'd like the little invention. It kept so many from starving, so very exciting!!!! Elisha is in the publication  more often than just the links I gave you...there are genealogy tidbits as well, although they may all be covered in the other reply info, not sure....But enjoy!!!  J.J.


You'll have to look carefully to see which Elisha is which. Popular name I see as it was used for a long time afterward. I am more accustomed to Elijah, so Elisha is a rather different spelling.

[J.J.]

Hey JDC, Had you found the "Balcom" spelling in the Liverpool area from the link i gave earlier?  Appears to be mostly late 19th early 20th century news so you may already have it...  https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-22090-14945-66?cc=1918186&wc=M6G1-NZS:206519701,206519702

[JDC]

Hi wildrose & JJ,

JJ, no i didnt :-( I don't have my database here but I don't recall anything referring to Liverpool or that spelling. I will check again when I get back home.

wildrose, the connection Bunkie is referring too is the marriage of Henry Holt to Sarah Ballard. Henry's  parents, Nicholas Holt and Elizabeth Short, are my 10thG -grandparents (just guess at the generation number at the moment). The Holts and Ballards sailed to New England on the James of London during 1635 I believe.

Getting back to the Balcomb family, Henry Balcomb arrived in Boston during 1660 and settled in Charlestown (now part of Boston now). It will be interesting to see if there is another connection between our families, perhaps in Nova Scotia :-) Digby is not far from where your lot settled.

JDC

[JDC]

Oops,

Should have been wildbee. But  perhaps thinking you are a flower blooming in genealogy ;-)

JDC

[J.J.]

Should have been wildbee. But  perhaps thinking you are a flower blooming in genealogy ;-) JDC

hehe, good cover...

Wildbee,  I imagine the Liverpool Elisha was the one with wife Sarah and the Barrington Elisha the one with wife Hanna... are you researching both?  ( haven't looked closely at the actual connections as you seem to already have that info) Amazing that six births for the Barrington Elisha are recorded  https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1810407
(Noting that three are listed as "Hopkings") There are early listings for children of Samuel & Rebecca as well... ( put in date range or father's names only for a quick search)

Assessment & Poll Tax records http://novascotia.ca/archives/virtual/census/results.asp?Search=hopkins&SearchButton=Search%20Census&Start=17

[wildbee]

Morning JJ,
I have been pouring over the reading material and maps..... I found nothing so far in Barrington or Liverpool for either Elisha.... my main search is for Elisha and Hannah ... you are correct about that... Funny thing ... in one of the readings you sent me... it mentioned Elisha living on the point  across from Moses Island, so... I thought that would give me a hint of where in Barrington he was living .... but Moses Island is out from Halifax... which is I believe 56 on the map grid. Though ...I think it is a coincidence. I also think you are correct about the no#s that I mentioned earlier were probably no#s for a reference or location in a book... not so much about where Elisha lived etc ... Thank you for pointing out that the Elisha (maybe Elisha and Hannah's son) was the one in Liverpool.
I really enjoyed the census. I don't think so far I have seen such an early one. I can't imagine when any one had the time to take the census.
You are also correct about there being a lot of Hopkins' and not just Elishas.... Eventually there were so many Hopkins in a certain section of Barrington that it was called Hopkinstown.
Most of the history I am reading in the books is new to me.... I am loving it.
Have a great day,
wildbee

[wildbee]

Morning JDC,
Two other people that Binkie and I decend from are Richard Warren and John Alden... and they had large families and if I remember correctly all of their children lived to marrying age and had as a result many children. I have read that these two families have the largest amount of decedents.... or something like that ... and are related to just about everyone. I have said that I am limiting my search to direct line.... which I call my vertical search but I have a few books that are very horizontal in their genealogy ... I am looking at the fourth generation of Stephen Hopkins and nothing yet.... but I will be willing (not really) to bet money that we connect through another family member.... By the time the Holts and Balcombs arrived and until the end of the that century .... my relatives seem to be all over N.E. ...Boston was the hot place to live it seems so we will see.
Wildbee is the name of a blog I had on Blogger. It was a year of searching and identifying wildflowers that grow in my area. The name Wildbee kind of comes from the way I would photograph each flower.... from the perspective that a wild bee might have as they flew in ... "a bees eye view" so to speak.
Wild rose is just too funny,
wildbee

[J.J.]

Did you find this in the 1827 census/Assessments ( Jr.to yours I imagine) http://novascotia.ca/archives/virtual/census/returns1827.asp?ID=2261
Barrington, Shelburne County — 1770
http://novascotia.ca/archives/virtual/census/returnsRG1v443.asp?ID=359
I imagine you'd found these http://novascotia.ca/archives/virtual/census/resultsTax.asp?Search=hopkins&SearchButton=Search+Poll+Tax+Records