I have been researching the story about the Glawson family for many years and after sifting through the information I have received from many different sources, I have written this story about them. Changes will be made when I receive more information.

I believe that Henderick (Classen)Glawson and his wife Anje Aljes( Smid) Classen lived in Groningen, the northern part of Holland. Henderick was joiner ( a skilled carpenter who did complicated woodwork and made furniture) by trade and Lutheran by religion. They along with their two children John Christopher and Elizabeth who were between the ages of four and fourteen, being born around 1737, decided to go to Nova Scotia, Canada.

According to the "Passenger lists of Foreign Protestants to Nova Scotia " by Terrence M. Punch., on May 11, 1751, Henderick Classen along with a woman and two children (which fits the information of his wife Anje and two children Christopher and Elizabeth ) boarded the Speedwell at Rotterdam Holland . The master of the Speedwell was Joseph Wilson and he was taking 74 families of 229 passengers to Nova Scotia, Canada . They arrived at Halifax on July 10,1751. We have no further information about the woman and one child, listed with Henderick Classen and as seventeen people died on the voyage, we believe they probably died at sea.

John Glawson, (a cousin of my husband ) did some research in the archives in Halifax. He wrote that a Heinrich Klasen's age in 1751 was given as 42 years (so he would be born in 1709), that he was a carpenter by trade and Lutheran by religion. He learned that a John Christopher (a son of Heinrich Klasen )death is recorded in St. Paul's Anglican church at Halifax as being March 20, 1752. He mentioned that an outbreak of influenza occurred that year that killed many of the settlers . So now it would appear that Henderick had lost both his wife and two children.Note the difference in the spelling in both Henderick and Classen.

St. Paul's Anglican Church, Halifax Nova Scotia

Note In 1749, Edward Cornwallis, the governor-in-chief of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada made a request to the British Government to send some honest and industrious settlers to secure Nova Scotia as a British Colony.

Note: St. Paul's Anglican church was founded by proclamation of King George 11 in 1749, and the building was erected in 1750 opening its doors for services on September 2, 1750. St. Paul's is the mother church of the Anglican communion in Canada.

John also stated that Heinrich Klasen married a widow, Dukje Heilas on July 3, 1752 at St. Paul's Anglican church, and in 1753 they joined other settlers in establishing the town of Lunenburg. The parish records in Lunenburg (where I did some researching in 1990) stated that a Henderick Claauson, a widower married Johanna Heilas, a widow in July 1752 in Halifax. Note again the difference in spelling

They had five children :1. Nicholas baptized Sept.28,1753, 2. Francis Cornelius baptized April 7, 1755, 3.G aspar baptized October 28, 1757, 4. Mary Elizabeth baptized November 19, 1759 and 5. Marguarita baptized January 6, 1762

My husband's ancestor was Francis Cornelius later known as Francis Cornelius Glawson and he married Anna Catharina Elizabeth West. West is sometimes spelt Weuyest (as in the passenger list,) and sometimes Weust and Wust.

Francis was a master of a vessel in the coastal trade between Lunenburg and Halifax. The seventh child of Francis and Anna's twelve children was John Martin Glawson who was born June 19, 1784 in Halifax. On December 18,1809 he married Elisabeth Shellnut. They had eight children and lived at Shoal Bay which is now called Pleasant Harbour. These are my husband's g.g. grandparents.Their third child called Francis Glawson was born October 5, 1813.

The tenth child of the twelve born to Francis & Anna was Catharine Glawson baptised February 25,1792 at Halifax. On June 8, 1811 she married William Benjamin Newcombe . The third child of eleven children was Elizabeth Newcombe who was born around 1817.

Now things get very complicated as Francis, the son of John Martin and Elisabeth ( Shellnut) Glawson married his cousin Elizabeth Newcombe, the daughter of William and Catharine(Glawson) Newcombe. Francis and Elizabeth were my husband's great grandparents. We don't know much about them except they had many children, one source said 21 and another source said 24. Many of them were deaf and dumb.

One of these children was Alexander Bartholomew Glawson who was born April 15, 1852 on Glawson's Island, Spry Bay, Nova Scotia. He married Elizabeth Walters Dickson (daughter of James and Margaret (MacLean) Dickson) in 1883 on the Magdalen Islands.

Elizabeth Dickson was born on the Magdalen Island in 1869. Alexander and Elizabeth were my husband's grandparents. They had four children who were born on Glawson's Island at Spry Bay, Nova Scotia. Their third child was Hailey Edmund Glawson who was born January 10, 1888. Hailey was my husband's father. Alexander who was a fisherman was drowned at sea on November 8, 1888.

Around 1910 Hailey at the age of 22 came west to Hartney Manitoba where he worked on the farms of George and Hank Gibson. Here he met Christina Caldwell who had come from Scotland with her sister(Flo) to Hartney., Manitoba Hailey and Christina were married on March 29, 1916 at the Hartney Presbyterian manse. They had five sons and one daughter.Hailey died on April 19, 1932 at the age of 44 from an ulcerated stomach

John Hamilton Glawson was the third son born to Hailey and Christina Glawson at Hartney, Manitoba. He served in the armed forces from 1942-1945. In 1946 he took an apprenticeship in Painting and Decorating in Brandon,Manitoba ,receiving his journeyman's papers in 1957. In 1959 he started he started his own business "Glawson Painting and Decorating Ltd." He retired in 1983.

In 1947 he married Vera Clark and they have two children Lydia and Bruce and three grandchildren Erin, Julie and Steven..

Bruce & Lydia

According to information received from a relative (Robert Starratt), Johann Wendel Wust, the son of Johann Veltin Wust and Anna Ursula (Habicht) Wust was born February 14, 1721 at Eschollbrucken, a town in the German state of Hessen-Darmstadt.

About 1735 Johann started work as a travelling journeyman blacksmith and went from Eschollbrucken to Osthofen on the other side of the Rhine to the home of Christian Ewald (a master blacksmith) and his wife Anna Catharina (Binder) Ewald. They had a daughter Maria (Anna) Apollonia Ewald, who was born July 10, 1724 at Osthofen. Johann and Apollonia were married November 21, 1745 at Osthofen, Lutheran (District of Worms). Johann became a master blacksmith

On June 28, 1751 Johann (age 27) and Apollonia (age 22) and their two daughters and one son sailed aboard the Murdoch. John Dick was the master of the vessel taking "Foreign Protestants" to Nova Scotia Canada. arriving on September 19, 1751, a voyge of 83 days. The spelling of Wust in the passenger list by Terrence Punch is spelt Weuyest, later changed to Wust.

Johann worked for H.M. Works on St. George's Island in Halifax harbour to repay the loan (212 florins) for their passage. In the spring of 1753, they went as settlers along with our (Classen) Glawson ancestors to help found the town of Lunenburg. Some of the settlers felt that some dishonest officials had cheated them of some of their rights. Johann was one of the men arrested, but he was later pardoned. Johann, Apollonia and family prospered as in 1760 they had a 390 acre farm lot and a township grant of 1025 acres. Johann profited from mortgage transactions as well as his trade as blacksmith. He was one of the first elders of a Lutheran church that opened its doors in 1772.

Johann and Apollonia's youngest child Anna Catharina Elisabeth Wust was baptised November 18, 1759. Apollonia died in 1759 at the age of 35. Johann now a widower with six children remarried June 10, 1760. He died November 12, 1811 in Lunenburg. As stated above Anna Catharina Wust and Francis Cornelius Glawson were married February 25, 1777. They were my husband's g.g.g. grandparents.

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