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Originally published in book form and sold-out at $250.00 per set, this invaluable resource is now available only as a PDF download for a dramatically reduced price.

The Foreign Protestants, as they are called, were fleeing tough times when about 2230 of them left their homes in Switzerland, France, and parts of Germany in the early 1750s and landed in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

In June of 1753, about 1453 of these settlers were then transferred by ships from Halifax to establish the new Town of Lunenburg.

Dr. Winthrop Bell's earlier book, The Foreign Protestants and the Settlement of Nova Scotia, was published in 1961. That book covers the immigration to Nova Scotia in the early 1750's of some 2200 German and French-speaking Protestant Europeans and how they then came to settle in Lunenburg.

After publishing his original work, Dr. Bell then set out to address the lack of information on the individuals themselves.

From nearly 40 different sets of surviving civil and church records covering the period ca. 1749-1770, he extracted all relevant details for each of some 800 different families and consolidated the data in register format.

Bell unfortunately died before the project was complete, but donated his research to Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Since then researchers have had access to his work through microfilm copies available at the Archives.

Thanks to the tireless work by J. Christopher Young, Ph.D., the original fruits of Dr. Bell's work are published here in combination with other related information. This book should be of great interest to historians, social historians, genealogists, and family historians alike as it presents personal history of the Foreign Protestants as they sought to build a better life in the New World.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION - How the book came to be published.
BIOGRAPHY of WINTHROP BELL -  A personal view of Dr. Bell.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS - Brief sketches of Drs. Chris Young, Terry Punch, Ken Paulsen & Peter Waite, and Heather Johnston.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - Who provided assistance during the preparation of the book.
GENEALOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF BELL'S REGISTER - Written by Noted Lunenburg genealogist Dr. Terry Punch.
THE FOREIGN PROTESTANT PLANTERS: THE SETTLEMENT OF LUNENBURG, NOVA SCOTIA (1753-1760) - Noted Lunenburg genealogists Drs. Terry Punch and Ken Paulsen wrote a brief history of how the Foreign Protestants came to Nova Scotia and Lunenburg’s early days.
THE SOURCES OF INFORMATION FOR BELL'S REGISTER - An introduction to where Dr. Bell found information on the first settlers.
KEY TO DECIPHERING BELL’S REGISTER - Bell has nearly 40 different kinds of information on his pages. By using a typical page, these are each highlighted and described. The original sources for each item are integrated into this section.
BELL'S REGISTER - the bulk of the book, in Bell’s own handwriting. In all, nearly 2000 individuals are covered. There are five sections:

    I - Those Whose Ship from Europe is Known

    II - Those Not Showing Up in Nova Scotia

    III - Those Whose Ship From Europe is Unknown

    IV - Those Who Appear in Bell’s Miscellaneous Research Papers

    V - Those Who Appear in 1749 Passenger Lists

ALTERNATE SPELLINGS OF FAMILY NAMES - There is considerable variability in family name spellings. The ones encountered by Bell are listed here.
INDEBTEDNESS LIST SIGNATURES - Over 800 signatures are shown for those who had to borrow to pay for their passage to Nova Scotia.
RETURN OF LUNENBURG TOWNSHIP 1770 (CENSUS) - Transcribed by Terry Punch.
INDEX of NAMES

873 pages   Indexed   Original book ISBN 0-9730393-2-9   Written by Winthrop P. Bell, Ph.D.   Compiled by J. Christopher Young, Ph.D. (author-published)

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He replied: Yes, he was my uncle. How do know him?

He lived across the street from my grandfather in Lunenburg. [334 Pelham Street]

Who is your grandfather?

Captain Leo Corkum.

I know him. I sailed with him on a fishing trip about 1939.

At the reunion, Lionel came and introduced himself. Then he presented me with an envelope containing about 40 photographs that he and Fred SPINDLER had taken while fishing with my grandfather.

After thanking him for the pictures, I asked Lionel, “What was the name of the ship you sailed on with my grandfather?”

The Irene Mary

The Irene Mary was named for my mother.

While scanning his photographs, I recalled that my grandfather Captain Leo CORKUM had written his memoirs shortly before he died in 1971 and that his son, my uncle, Max CORKUM also had written his memoirs with a chapter devoted to his experience fishing with his father. It then seemed logical to combine the two memoirs and illustrate them with Lionel’s photographs.

Then genealogical information on the CORKUM family was added followed by information on one trip Leo made on his early schooner the Irene M. Corkum.

There are four parts:

• Part A traces the Corkum lineage from the first namesake in the Netherlands of the 1520's.

• Part B comprises Just About Me, Leo Corkum’s memoirs in their entirety with some Illustrations.

• Part C comprises the chapter on fishing with his father by Max Corkum in his memoirs - Memories Are Forever illustrated with the bulk of Lionel’s    photographs.

• Part D is the Log of the schooner Irene M. Corkum - November 31,1917 - January 27, 1918.

• Part E contains several published interviews with Leo [Corkum].

96 pages    Indexed   Original book ISBN 0-ISBN 0-9730393-3-7   Written & Published (2003) by J. Christopher Young, Ph.D.

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