Cape Breton Proctors Family Home Page

There are few places in the world where you say Proctor is a common family name but Lower River Inhabitants is one of them, more recently, Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. Family oral history suggests the Proctors were originally from Virginia, re-located to Halifax after the battle of Yorktown got too close to home.
Research has turned up that two brothers, John and James, recieving land grants from their membership of the North Carolina Rangers. Near the end of the American Revolution, these Rangers went from Florida, to New York, to Halifax, then Cape Breton. Not sure if the whole family followed, but family legend again, says that the grandfather was in charge of the 2 boys, older girl and 2 younger girls when they had to flee.

The Census rolls says the family is Irish, though I suspect thats because the Proctor men tend to marry Irish lasses, family oral history again, saying that these ladies came from Gloucester, Massachuetts, where the men tend to fish in the winter. There are a few Proctor men on the Fishermen's memorial in Gloucester.

The biggest Proctor family mystery still, is if the family is descended from John Proctor, Virginia pioneer of 1609, survivor of the Sea Venture, and husband of the brave Alice Proctor who defended her home against the invading indians of the 1622 massacre.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~proctorj/


The names I am researching include:
-PROCTORs from Lower River Inhabitants, Richmond County, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
-MACDONALDs from Glendale, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
-GRANVILLEs from Grace Harbour, Newfoundland
-ROSS from Northumberland County, New Brunswick, Canada
-MACDONALDs from Northumberland County, New Brunswick, Canada

More later, when I learn how to plant our family tree on the web.