Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
- That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
- We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
- On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Gravenhurst (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Gravenhurst. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Gravenhurst:
- Websites specific to Ontario
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Ontario
Cemeteries Near Gravenhurst ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Gravenhurst.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Gravenhurst covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Gravenhurst, with the one closest to Gravenhurst listed first.
- Lakeview St. Paul's Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Lakeview Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Mickel Memorial Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Symington Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Bethel Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Bracebridge United Church Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- St. Luke's Anglican Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- St. Paul's Anglican Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Torrance Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Torrance Cemetery is located outside and to the north of Torrance.
- The Torrance Cemetery has also been known as:
- Torrance Union Cemetery
- Whitting Family Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Torrance Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2400834 <1>
- Ramona United Church Union Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Cooper's Falls Free Methodist Church Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Cooper's Falls Free Methodist Church Cemetery is located outside and to the west of Cooper's Falls.
- The Cooper's Falls Free Methodist Church Cemetery has also been known as:
- Cooper's Falls Free Methodist Cemetery
- Cooper's Falls Methodist Church Cemetery
- Free Methodist Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cooper's Falls Free Methodist Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2278711 <1>
- St. George's Anglican Church Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (56 more) ...
- George Kirk Memorial Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the George Kirk Memorial Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
- To give a relative sense of its location, the George Kirk Memorial Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<3> to the south of Bracebridge.
- The George Kirk Memorial Cemetery has also been known as:
- Kirk Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the George Kirk Memorial Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2337292 <1>
- St. Mark's Anglican Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Langford Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Gravenhurst. See our List of 1890's Communities around Gravenhurst.
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Gravenhurst: www.gravenhurst.ca/
The official website for Province of Ontario: https://www.ontario.ca/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com. |
| <2> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Gravenhurst) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Gravenhurst. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.9198, Longitude: -79.3741 |