(excuse spelling and grammar - author visually limited)
The Falkenhayn name has 28 spellings
in Nova Scotia and all are related to the same ancestor whose name was spelt "Falkenhayn".
Carl C. Falkenhayn is listed on the ships list as a pelty worker. It is my experience that other Falkenhayns, with a different spelling, are very reluctant to allow themselves ownership of their history. There has been debate as to the meaning of the word "peltry". My research enables me to speak to the word and explain that it described the activity of one who seeks and prepares pelts....a necessary and essential trade and product that would be required by all. One who works with pelts is a peltier.
In the 1750's immigrants were in need of bartering for pelts from native Indians and the fur trade in Canada began because man Europeans wanted these furs.
Indeed, when the year of which this family arrived and settled in the province of Nova Scotia gave them the title of being "Founding Fathers".
Midst researching this family's journey, I felt myself in absolute awe when viewing the actual deed of land that the province offered in the Falkenhayn effort to increase population which, through, taxes would assist in the province debt. Farm land in the county of Lunenburg was the location assigned to these Protestant Loyalists.
Falkenhayn propriety is now the location of the "Three Churches" in the town of Mahone Bay. This is spectacular propriety and encourage you take a moment to have a gander....Google "Three churches, Mahone Bay".
These immigrants left their homeland to explore and participate in a journey to Nova Scotia where they would be "given" eleven acre plots of land for farming purposes. With the failure of crops due to the fact that the area of the south shore is very sparse and growing on the top layers of granite.
Several families endured the restrictions and others settled in the Annapolis Valley where they could successfully farm (as did the Falkenhayns). A minority of immigrants went to sea or moved to the northeast region of the United States (Maine, Mass.).
My activity and awareness of family stories dictated hours of research. In one particular research, in the Nova Scotia Archives, I found the original deed of land offered to Carl Fakenhayn. I do not recall ever being so moved by this discovery.
I encourage you to have a good look at your family as there is, without doubt, surprises ... if you embrace the opportunity you will be providing your family a gift of exception.
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Melanie Elliott
carpe.diem@ns.sympatico.ca
(daughter of Frances Evelyn (nee Faulkenham) Elliott
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