A Crant Story
Our Crant family lives in Elmsdale, Hants Co. NS, My name is Bill , my wife's name is Betty nee Stephen's of Grand Lake, NS and we have an 10 year old son Stephen. My major interest are Computers, Graphics, Genealogy, fly fishing and collecting Hockey Cards. You can find a little more about our heritage by going here.
The Crant name originated in the Hermitage district of, Newfoundland circa 1800. Many came as "pauper-apprentices" to Robert Newman and Company. It is a truly unique name to Newfoundland. Through out the years several pockets of Crants have migrated throughout the western Hemisphere. Notably, Nova Scotia, Ft. Myers, Fl., Inverness, Scotland and of course Newfoundland. Tour the family through the years back to when they had the nerve to call us Grant. when actually the surname is a variation of an old English West Country surname CURRANT, particulary in Hampshire.
My father "Jack" was born here and his father and mother "Billie Joe" and "Gen" spent a large portion of their life here after moving here from Great Jervis (West), in 1907 before coming to Nova Scotia in 1954, find old friends, relatives and make new friends.
See the St. Alban's Page where it references the early Crants and Wilcott's as early settlers from Great Jervis and Swanger's Cove, Newfoundland.
| Lovell's Great Jervis -1871. | Lovell's Ramea Islands - 1871 |
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| McAlpine's Great Jervois 1894 - 1897. N/A | McAlpine's Ramea 1894 to 1897 |
| McAlpine's Great Jervois - 1898. | McAlpine's Ramea - 1898. |
| McAlpine's Great Jervois - 1904 | McAlpine's Ramea - 1904 |
| 1921 South Coast Census |
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| Genealogy and Newfoundland Links |
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| Where we live now Elmsdale, NS |
| My son's Stephen's Web Page. |
If you have problems accessing this guest book please e-mail me thanks Bill.
My Genealogy interest are primarily on the south coast of Newfoundland and Hampshire, England. If you find any names here that are of interest to you e-mail me and I will give you the information I have on that name. Please note that the information in here as with any other genealogy data is based on family folklore and various historical records, pieced together, as best I can.
| My Personal Genealogy Text File. |
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| My downloadable GEDcom File. |
| A list of surnames I'm Researching. |
| John Holwell | David Pike |
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| The Dooley Home Page | Stephen Anthony |
| Peter Haliburton |
Gordon Lane |
| Emily Hegarty | John Huxter |
| Anne Patten Oliver's the Patten Exchange | Timothy Churchill |
Anyone needing the services of a HVAC designer / draftsman look here for my resume.
It seems I can't get enough of writing web pages !!!
Hi, Meet the family, Bill, Betty and Stephen...
Visit Jesse James (Jim) Crant's Shell World in Kissimme and Orlando, FL., once called the Shell Factory in Fort Myers when owned by his (deceased) brother Harold, the son of John Thomas Crant born in Gaultois, NF, Dianne (Crant) DeBoest mentioned above is Jim's neice. We were fortunate enough to reuntite with Jim's sister and her husband Patricia (Crant) and Bob Canady of Maggie Vally, NC this summer as they passed thru in search of their roots.