Halifax County
LDS/PANS FILM NUMBERS
Note that this list is incomplete. It is a partial list with lots more to be added in the future. If you know of a film number that should be listed here, please email us with the details.
| LDS | PANS | CONTENT |
|---|---|---|
| 1376190 | tba | NS, HALIFAX-1851 & 1861 CENSUS |
| 467821 | tba | NS, HALIFAX-PROBATE RECORDS-INDEX 1750-1937 |
| 466415 | tba | NS, HALIFAX-PROBATE RECORDS-WILLS V1-2 1749-1937 |
| 466416 | tba | NS, HALIFAX-PROBATE RECORDS-WILLS V3-4 1816-1836 |
| 466417 | tba | NS, HALIFAX-PROBATE RECORDS-WILLS V5-6 1836-1858 |
| 1017203 | tba | NS, HALIFAX, HALIFAX-CEMETERIES |
| 928971 | tba | NS, HALIFAX(2)-CHURCH RECORDS C OF E 1752-1869 |
| 1017200 | tba | NS, HALIFAX(2)-LANDS & PROPERTY- BURIALS 1844-1869 |
| 1017201 | tba | NS, HALIFAX(2)-LANDS & PROPERTY- BURIALS 1869-1890 |
| 1376196 | tba | NS, HALIFAX(2)-VITAL RECORDS MARRIAGES 1763-1847 |
| 1376197 | tba | NS, HALIFAX(2)-VITAL RECORDS-MARRIAGES 1848-1870 Also contains: 1. Catalog of Marriage Licence Bonds 1821-1862. Typescript, covering all Nova Scotia, in chronological order. Not indexed by name or place. Gives name, trade, hometown and marital status of groom and bride-to-be, and often the clergyman and church to whom the licence is referred, and sometimes the names of others who signed the bond. 2. Marriage Licence Bonds 1862-64. 3. Marriage Licence Bonds 1870-71. (1865-69 is omitted). 4. Catalog of Manuscript Documents 1748-1841. Official letters, petitions, memoranda of the N.S government and citizens covering any subject. Copies of handwritten originals. If you know what to look for and when, it might be of help. 5. Misc. Ships' Passenger Lists, particularly those of the Dove and Sarah from Scotland to Pictou in 1801. The Dove was mistakenly called the Pigeon by Pictou historian Patterson. (Same kind of bird, but wrong word). There are also some narratives about conditions on the ship and the kind of settlers they carried. 6. "Foreign Protestants who Sailed from Continental Europe". Passenger lists for the Ann, 1750;Speedwell, 1751; Gale 1751; Murdoch, 1751; Pearl 1751; Betty, 1752; Sally, 1752. These are copies of original handwritten lists made up in Rotterdam, mostly duplicated by different writers, some apparently by John Dick, the British agent, himself. There are some lists of those who arrived in Halifax (as opposed to those who departed Rotterdam; up to ten percent died on some of the voyages). Also, lists of the immigrants who were victualled in Halifax in the early 1750's. The film was made from documents in PANS, for example, Item 6 is PANS MG 4 Vol. 3. I |
| 1298875 | tba | BOARD OF STATS-MARRIAGES BIRTHS DEATHS 1864-1918 |
| 1298810 | tba | BOARD OF STATS-BIRTHS 1864-1870 |
| 1302063 | tba | BOARD OF STATS-MARRIAGES BIRTHS DEATHS 1864-1918/W |
| 1298861 | tba | BOARD OF STATS-MARRIAGES BIRTHS DEATHS 1864-1918/W |
| 1298990 | tba | BOARD OF STATS-MARRIAGES BIRTHS DEATHS 1864-1918 |
| 1298991 | tba | BOARD OF STATS-MARRIAGES BIRTHS DEATHS 1864-1918/W |
| 962273 | tba | NS-CENSUS 1770 INDEXED |
| 1017202 | tba | NS, HALIFAX-FAIRVIEW - CEMETERIES - INDEX |
| 1319834 | tba | NS, HALIFAX-HALIFAX -CEMETERIES |
| 865079 | tba | NS, HALIFAX-1861 CENSUS |
| 865078 | tba | NS, HALIFAX-1861 CENSUS |
| 1312879 | tba | NS, HALIFAX-VITAL RECORDS - MARRIAGES 1916 |
| 1312880 | tba | NS, HALIFAX-VITAL RECORDS - MARRIAGES 1916 |
| 1378178 | tba | NS, HALIFAX-GENEALOGY - SOURCES VOL 1008-1009 |
| 1378282 | tba | NS, HALIFAX-GENEALOGY - SOURCES VOL 1009-1011 |
| 1378283 | tba | NS, HALIFAX-GENEALOGY - SOURCES VOL 1011-1014 |
| 1378284 | tba | NS, HALIFAX-GENEALOGY - SOURCES VOL 1014-1022 |
| 1378285 | tba | NS, HALIFAX-GENEALOGY - SOURCES VOL 1023-1027 |
| 1421699 | tba | NS, HALIFAX-IMMIGRATION SETTLERS WITH CORNWALLIS |
| 982367 | tba | NS, LAWRENCETOWN TOWNSHIP-HISTORY |
| 1311420 | tba | NS, HALIFAX-VITAL STATISTICS MARRIAGE BONDS |
| 493606 | tba | NS, HALIFAX-1871 CENSUS |
| 1465745 | tba | NS, HALIFAX/PICTOU-1871 CENSUS |
| 493605 | tba | NS, HALIFAX-1871 CENSUS |
| 1465740 | tba | NS-HALIFAX TO HANTS-1891 CENSUS |
| 1465738 | tba | NS, GUYSBORO - HALIFAX-1891 CENSUS |
| 477530 | tba | NS, LAND GRANTS-1732-1864 |
| 1376295 | RG-1 Vols . 443, 444 1/2, 445, 448 |
NS, CENSUS OR POLL TAX RECORDS FOR LUNENBURG AND OTHER PLACES FOR 1770; 1794 AND 1795; SOME EASTERN SHORE FOR 1811 AND 1818; CAPE BRETON FOR 1817; SOME HALIFAX COUNTY FOR 1817; AND HALIFAX COUNTY BROADLY IN 1838. ***SEE THE DETAILED LISTING BELOW.*** |
| 6046789 | tba | NS, 1827 CENSUS-INCLUDING HALIFAX COMMUNITIES (TYPESCRIPT LISTING) |
| PANS SERIES | CONTENT |
|---|---|
| MG 1 | PAPERS OF FAMILIES & INDIVIDUALS |
| MG 3 | DOCTORS' DAY BOOKS |
| MG 4 | CHURCH REGISTERS, TOWNSHIP PAPERS |
| MG 5 | CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS, BURIAL REGISTERS (kept by Undertakers) |
| MG 8 | FAMILY BIBLES | RG 1 | POLL TAX |
| RG 12 | CENSUS |
| RG 18 | PASSENGER LISTS |
| RG 20 | LAND GRANTS (and Petitions) |
| RG 32 | VITAL STATISTICS (Government), MARRIAGE BONDS |
| RG 38 & 39 | COURT RECORDS |
| RG 41 | CORONERS INQUESTS |
| RG 47 | DEEDS |
| RG 48 | PROBATE (Wills & Estates) |
***Listing of Places and Dates of Census or Poll Tax Records of Nova Scotia on FHL Film No.1376295***
PANS RG-1 Vol. 443. Year 1770 except where otherwise indicated:
Annapolis; Barrington; Conway; Cumberland; Falmouth; Granville; Hillsborough; Horton; Londonderry; Lunenburg; New Dublin; Onslow; Pictou 1770 and 1775; Sackville; Truro.
PANS RG-1 Vol.444 1/2. Year 1793 except where otherwise indicated:
Londonderry; Lunenburg; Pictou (Harbour); Queens County; Ramsheg; Rawdon; River Philip; Rivers Macan, Napan and Hebert; Gulf of St Lawrence; Truro; Windsor; Yarmouth; New Dublin; Amherst 1794; Antigonish.
Continuing for year 1794, except where otherwise indicated:
Tracadie; Annapolis; Guysborough and Manchester, Crow Harbour and Canso; Chester; Cumberland; Douglas (incl. Coaticook); Economy; Falmouth; Fort Lawrence; Londonderry; Lunenburg; Middle Stewiacke; New Dublin; Newport; Onslow; Queens County; Ramsheg; Rawdon; Rivers Hebert, Macan and Napan; River Philip; Shelburne; Stewiacke; Tatamagouche; Truro-Down Village; Truro-Derry Village; Wilmot; Windsor; Amherst 1795; Fort Lawrence 1793.
Continuing for year 1795, except where otherwise indicated:
Chester; Cornwallis; Digby; Economy; Falmouth; Guysborough and Manchester; Londonderry; Lunenburg; New Dublin; Newport; Onslow; Queens County; Ramsheg; Rawdon; River Philip; Rivers Macan, Napan and Hebert; Shelburne; Shubenacadie River; Lower Stewiacke; Halifax Road as far as Gay's River; Truro-Derry Village; Truro-Town Village; Upper Stewiacke; Douglas Township; Windsor.
PANS RG-1 Vol. 445. Year 1811 unless otherwise indicated:
Gut of Canso, St George's Bay, Long Point, Rear Land. (Gut of Canso, Ship Harbour, Plaster of Paris Cove, North End of Gut of Canso, Saint George's Bay, Low Point 1811, 1817, 1818). River Inhabitants; Arichat; Little Arichat; Barre D'Echouse, Petit Lesgret and Upper Part of Arichat; D'Escousse and Grand Digue; River Bourgeois and St Peter's; L'Ardoise; Arichat.
Continuing for year 1817:
Pictou; Addington Grant (Sydney County); Antigonish (Sydney County); (Road) from Antigonish and Manchester; Cape St George (Sydney County); Country Harbour (Sydney County); Gulf Shore from Malignant Point to the County Line (Sydney County); Gut of Canso (Sydney County); Guysborough (Sydney County); Harbour Boucher (Sydney County); Little River and Tracadie (Sydney County); Manchester (Sydney County); Morris Town (Sydney County); Ohio (On the West River of Antigonish, Sydney County); Pomquet; St Mary's (Sydney County); Indians (Sydney County); Blacks in Tracadie (Sydney County); General Abstract of the Census of the Different Settlements in Halifax County in 1817, Census of St Margaret's Bay.
PANS RG-1 Vol. 445, continuing for the year 1818:
Ship Harbour and Gut of Canso; Gut of Canso; Balhache's Point in the Gut of Canso to Grand Judique; Port Hood; Broad Cove; Margaree and Broad Cove; Cheticamp; South End of Gut of Canso; Louisbourg; Lower Settlement River Inhabitants; Baddeck; Little Bras d'Or; St. Andrew's.
PANS RG-1, Vol. 448 - Census for the County of Halifax 1838:
Letter addressed to Census Takers; General Abstract. Halifax (City); Dartmouth; Preston. Note that the film is disorganized and parts are separated in this area, but the data probably is all there.
Continuing, 1838:
Cole Harbour, Cow Bay and Eastern Passage; Lawrence Town; Porter's Lake; Chitzencook (Chezzetcook); Three Fathom Harbour; Port Piswick (Petpeswick); Jedore (Jeddore); Clam Harbour and Little Harbour; Ship Harbour and Shoal Bay (Pleasant Harbour Area); Tangier, Pope's Harbour and Owl's Head; Sheet Harbour and Taylor's Head; Beaver Harbour, Newdiquiddy and Salmon River (Port Dufferin); Bay of Islands to County Line (East Quoddy to Ecum Secum); West Branch of St Mary's River; Lower Musquodoboit (Includes Musquodoboit Harbour); Middle Musquodoboit; Upper Musquodoboit; Gay's River; Truro Road; Dutch Village, Beach Hill, and from Three Mile House to Sackville Bridge; Sackville Bridge to County Line; Beaverbank; Spryfield, Harrietsfield and Goodwood; Hammonds Plains; Margaret's Bay (Includes West side of St Margaret's Bay in Lunenburg County); Dover and Blind Bay; Upper and Lower Prospect, Pennant Bay, Sambro and Ketch Harbour; Duncan's, Portugese, Bear Cove and Halibut Bay; Herring, Ferguson and Purcell's Cove.
PANS RG-1 Vol.449:
Census of Nova Scotia, Annapolis County, 1838.
Only the Township of Annapolis is on this film.
End of Film 1376295.
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