This list was compiled
for the Cumberland County researcher by Sandra Naehrig with
help from Judy O'Brien Burr, Susan Hill and Diane Shaw.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY FAMILIES, NOVA SCOTIA by Joan [CURTIS]
JOWSEY, 1988. A copy is available at the Mt. A Library "Bell Collection"
- Ref: CS 88 N6 J6 1988 but can only be viewed at the library.
It is held in the Salt Lake City LDS library but they don't loan
out books.
EARLY SETTLERS OF CUMBERLAND TOWNSHIP, NS by Louise Walsh
Throop, C.G., is available on microfiche (No. 6087889) from the
LDS Family History Library. This isn't a book, but a 27 pg. excellent
article which was published in "National Genealogical Society
Quarterly" before 1979. Mt.A. Library, Bell Collection, Call #FC
2345 C5 T5 1979 BELL
* SOME NORTH CUMBERLANDIANS PAST
AND PRESENT by Harry R. Brown
THE PIONEERS OF MALAGASH Genealogical Record from Early Days
by Alexander M. Macnab, Notes: Reprint, originally published by
News Sentinel, Amherst, Nova Scotia. FHL US/CAN Film 1036517
OLD PUGWASH FAMILIES as published in The Oxford Journal,
Oxford, Nova Scotia by James F. Smith. Map of Fanningsborough
(North Wallace) in back pocket North Cumberland Historical Society,
1985 Physical: 139 p. FHL US/CAN Film 1697557
THE BASIN OF MINAS AND IT'S [I.E. ITS] EARLY SETTLERS
by W.C. Milner. 1846, Published: [Wolfville?: s.n., 193-?] 132
p. ; 22 cm. Note: "Reprinted from the Wolfville Acadian." Includes
TAYLOR information, probably available at Parrsboro Library An
original of this book is held at Mt. A. Library, Bell Collection,
Call #FC 2345 M5 M5 1930Z.
LOYALISTS AND PLANTERS OF MINAS BASIN, by Salter, Robert
Wilson, 1915-; Amherst, Nova Scotia: Acadian Printing, 198- vi,
85 p.: ill.; 21 cm [CS90/S245/19--] Lt. Thos Pritchard, John MacLeod,
Jonathan Vickery, Lt. Elizear Taylor, Edmund Ward, James Jenks,
Capt. Samuel Wilson, Elijah Fowler, Robert Kerr, Capt. John Hatfield,
Robert Spicer, John Vickery, Jesse Lewis, Thomas Moore, Nicholas
Willigar, John Canon, Foynes York
THE CHIGNECTO ISTHMUS, AND IT'S FIRST SETTLERS by Howard
Trueman, first published 1902 by Wm. Briggs, Toronto
VITAL STATISTICS FROM HARRIS JENKS' JOURNAL : 2000 BIRTHS,
MARRIAGES & DEATHS IN DILIGENT RIVER & AROUND THE MINAS BASIN,
NOVA SCOTIA, compiled by Jack F. Layton FHL US/CAN Fiche 6088411
* before a title means that it can
be obtained from the North Cumberland Historical Society.
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