Nova Scotian Records .....

[AnneM]

Hi folks

While researching on behalf of a friend I have found her great grandmother and sibs born in Nova Scotia. According to extracted records on the IGI, Catherine Bowman was baptised in St Stephen's Anglican, Chester, Lunenberg, Nova Scotia on 25th September 1837, daughter of Thomas Bowman and Charlotte. Does anyone know if these records are accessible and what information they might hold e.g. occupation of father

Thanks

Anne

[HeatherH]

Hello Anne, I have access to both the Nova Scotia Archives and the resourses at the local library.I can PM you my addy and if you like will see what is available for you for Lunenberg at that time period.
Cheers ,
HeatherK

[JustJean]

Hi Anne and Heather

Maybe this will help and maybe not. I went looking online as I had rellies of my own that were in Lunenberg County for a time and had some success in finding records for them. There are some extracted records if you just google for them. Anyhow....I looked and these are the names in the BMD transcriptions for Births to Thomas and Charlotte


"BOWMAN","Cath Ann","B","1837-04-24","1837-09-25","SSAC","Thomas & Charlotte Clattenberg",,

"BOWMAN","Eliz","B","1831-12-03","1832-09-30","SSAC","Thomas & Charlotte Clattenberg",,

"BOWMAN","George","B","1818 abt","1818-08-25","SSAC","Thomas & Charlotte Clattenberg",,

"BOWMAN","Jacob","B","1827-08-09","1827-09-03","SSAC","Thomas & Charlotte Clattenberg",,

"BOWMAN","Mary Ann","B","1821 abt","1821-08-04","SSAC","Thomas & Charlotte Clattenberg",,

"BOWMAN","Solomon","B","1829-12-11","1832-09-30","SSAC","Thomas & Charlotte Clattenberg",,

"BOWMAN","Thomas","B","1822-01-16","1824-09-01","SSAC","Thomas & Charlotte Clattenberg",,

"BOWMAN","Thomas","M","1817-10-07","Tancook Is","SSAC","Clattenberg, Charlotte C",,

"BOWMAN","William","B","1823-10-11","1826-05-01","SSAC","Thomas & Charlotte Clattenberg",,


I believe the code "SSAC" is the abbreviation used for St. Stephen Anglican Church. ALso note that Charlotte's MN is given as Clattenberg. Now also online are transciptions of the 1838 Census for Chester and a few other areas nearby. THis is the confusing part. You'd think they must have lived in Chester if the children were all baptised there but just one year after Catherine was born I couldn't find a BOWMAN anywhere to be seen!!! I also couldn't find any CLATTENBERG's...but then did finally find one Jacob CLATTENBERG and he was a farmer with a large family. Note these census indexes do not enumerate the whole family...just a head count! Not much to go on but you really would think they would show up somewhere!!!! Hopefully Heather can get you the info you need by looking up the records in person

Best wishes
Jean

[AnneM]

Ta so much Heather and Jean. Heather I will mail you once I'n not typing in the dark because puter is in son's room.

Anne

[AnneM]

Hi

Just to say thanks properly to Heather and Jean. I never thought of just googling, Jean. You've given me a few kids I did not have before George, one Thomas and Mary Ann. Also on Catherine's DC (she obligingly died in Scotland) it gives her maiden name as Bowman which is obviously incorrect. I am very jealous of my friend to have a name like Clattenberg in her tree. I have nothing remotely as sonorous. I hope she is duly appreciative, though she was meant to come round last night to view her tree and forgot to turn up. For some reason, though like me she uses XP, she can't get the same software that I use to load on her laptop.

On the census in Aberdeen Catherine gives her birthplace as Halifax but when I saw the baptism records I assumed she just meant in the general vicinity of the only place in NS that the enumerator was likely to have heard of.

The whereabouts of the Bowmans in the census is very puzzling. They did not go to Scotland as Catherine was married in NS in 1857 and her oldest few children were born there. There's nothing like a mystery to test the brain.

Thanks so much again.

Anne

Thanks very