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Chester Municipal Heritage Society
Genealogies & Materials Available
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Choose a Letter Below |
| We are interested in collecting family genealogies within the Municipality of Chester to add to our beginning collection of materials for the new Lordly Manor Museum Research Section. The materials have not been reproduced as received and we do not guarantee their accuracy. Should you discover a mistake please let us know so that we may correct it. |
| A | B Bond |
C |
| D Delong |
E | F Feader |
| G | H
Hiltz Houghton |
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| J | K | L |
| M | N
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| P | Q | R
Robinson to Deans |
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Skerry (text only) |
T | U |
| V | W | X |
| Y | Z |
If you have already compiled your genealogy we would like to duplicate it and add it to our computer based collection. We will teach you how to computerize your own family tree, or do it for you at a cost of $25.00. We do not do the research, you must provide that. When finished we will provide you with a computerized genealogy easily shared with others. At the present time we have the following Gedcom Files available at a rate of $5.00 per Gedcom. Photocopy of the material varies with the amount of material but usually costs .25 cents a page.
You may contact us:
by mail: Mrs. Carol A. Nauss, The Chester Municipal Heritage Society,
P.O. Box 321, Chester, N.S. B0J 1J0
by phone: (902)275-3826
by email.
We have digitized the following materials and they are available for personal research purposes only. To gain access to these please use the contacts above.
The Chester Municipal Council minutes to 1915
Cottnman Smith's Writings
The Women's Institute History of Chester
J. Mills' Scrapbook of newspaper clippings
Digitized photographs (800+) from the Municipality - mainly the village of Chester
The History of Chester Basin (earliest book)
Chester, A Pictorial History of a Nova Scotia Village
Newspaper clippings beginning the fall of 1998
Newspaper articles and information on Oak Island
Death notices beginning 1997
The Rooster Crows at Dawn - My Eighty Years In the Nova Scotia Village of Blandford by Lee Zinck
Rev. Seccombe's Diary
The History of St. Barnabas's Church - Blandford
The History of the Chester Basin United Baptist Church
A History of Sherwood, Lunenburg County by G. Levy
The Butterbox Survivors - Life After the Ideal Maternity Home by Robert Hartlen
Research files on the Ideal Maternity Home supplied by Robert Hartlen
Skerry Family Information
Databased Information includes:
| Cemeteries of the Municipality of Chester | Inventoried Properties of Chester Municipality | |
| Photographs of Inventoried Properties within the Municipality - 1983-1985 | Newspaper Clippings begining fall 1997 | |
| J. Mills Scrapbooks - clippings of Chester Municipality | Heirs and Assigns early records of births | |
| Chester Township Book | Lordly Scrapbooks | |
| John Meisner's - will Key to Meisner's Island (map) Jane Meisner's Diary - happening in Chester Casper Meisner's passport from Germany Harris Meisner's death in war |
List of people who came from Lunenburg to Chester Protestants in Nova Scotia First Settlers in Lunenburg |
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| St. Peter's Lutheran Church History- Chester St. Stephen's Anglican Church History- Chester St. Barnabas' Church History - Blandford |
History of Chester Basin Women's Institute History of Chester Chester, A Pictorial History of a Nova Scotia Village |
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| Cottnam Smith's Writings | Rev. Seccombe's Diary | |
| History of New Ross | Selected passages from A History of Gold River/Western Shore | |
Lunenburg County Web Site
Ships' passenger lists are available here for Gale 1751 & 52; Murdock 1751; Speedwell 1751 & 1752; Ann; Betty
Victualing list 1753; Halifax 1752 & 1756 are available here.
Obituaries 1775 - 1821 recorded by Ebenezer Fitch, Town Clerk, Chester, N.S.
Lunenburg County obituaries
Debrisay Name List
1783 Census
1901 Census
Fishermen Lost in Lunenburg County
Cornwallis ships to Halifax
Chester Township Book is available here.
Cemetery listings for Lunenburg County are available here.
New Ross Historical Society - Information and genealogies available through Ross Farm Museum
New & Continuing Research Work
Collection of Chester Basin Material to be started.
Databasing of Oak Island Clippings and Information
Collection and coalating of material on the houses and land in the Village of Chester
Continuation of database work on clippings, obituaries, photos
Continuation of work on genealogy collection and digitization
Continuation of digitizing of photographs and other materials as received
Continuation of multimedia program on the progress of the Lordly Museum