The Settlement in Guysborough

A. C. Jost wrote Guysborough Sketches and Essays in 1950.  This has been a valuable resource for those of us interested in our Guysborough roots.

A small group of Strople cousins digging through dusty courthouses, libraries, the Internet and various archival collections have formed a loose association to assist each other with research.  Our group was named by Cousin Gerald Strople McMahon of Houston , Texas.  He christened us "The Hunting Party" and that is the essence of what we do.  Our information conduit may go through cycles of feast and famine but we march on.

To that end, we have decided to create this Web site.  We hope that other Strople family members will discover the site and decide to join us and share their family stories and memories.

Our cousin, Nancy Whorley of New Jersey has been working steadily for quite some time and has collected a tremendous amount of information and made quite a few contacts.  We doff our hats to Nancy and Gerald for the work they have contributed to our knowledge of the Strople family since the time of The Loyalist Soldier.

Nancy has made photographs of the sites in the Guysborough Settlement which are significant to our family history.  We sincerely hope all our visitors to this site will enjoy them and we invite submission of other photographs or memorabilia from any of our Strople kin.

 Jost's Store was the general store in downtown Guysborough.  It was owned for many years by a family named Jost.

 St. Paul's, which was also an Anglican church.  Many Strople headstones are here.  This is in Boylston, Nova Scotia, which is a part of Guysborough.

St. Mary's in Bayfield, Nova Scotia.  This is the community to which William Strople, Sr. moved with all of his children except George Henry.

This picture of Bayfield Road was taken from the yard of the Bayfield Church.  This was the STROPLE Intersection.  Stroples lived adjacent to the church and on both sides of the road.

The Bayfield House is a Strople home on the side road.

Strople land in Bayfield.

The Christ Church pictured here is the church home of the original soldier Strople.  At least one of his children is buried here.

The Christ Church sign.

This is the homestead of the Strople family in Guysborough, Nova Scotia.  The house itself currently belongs to an oldtime family named Simpson, but it sits on the property once owned by Henry George and also *Henry George.  the house is somewhat modern, but the outbuildings were probably used by Strople family members.  The last Strople owner was Clarence who died in 1941.

*  (Refer to German naming patterns)

Clarence's shed.

Clarence's barn.

Clarence's barn.

Where it all began for the Stroples in North America.

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