A visit to the Watsonville Catholic Cemetery ...
Introduction ...
Since our focus is on geography, we don't have burial or interment information. Nor do we have any contact information for the Watsonville Catholic Cemetery. For information of that nature, we suggest the Find-A-Grave <1> website: The Watsonville Catholic Cemetery (FG ID #2145531)
Note: We have organized the cemeteries in our Gazetteer based on a problem that we had while working on our own genealogy. As an example and without specifying the cemeteries involved, we found an ancestor that we believed to have been buried in one cemetery had actually been buried elsewhere.
We discovered that his burial plans had changed at the last moment and the family had scrambled to make new arrangements. By looking at nearby cemeteries, the surrounding communities and in newspapers of the period, we were finally able to locate his burial site.
Should you find yourself in the same situation, we hope that our Gazetteer helps you discover your lost ancestor.
The Location of the Watsonville Catholic Cemetery ...
The Watsonville Catholic Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Watsonville.
The cemetery is located in Santa Cruz County<2>.
List of nearby cemeteries ...
We've listed the following cemeteries alphabetically:
- Calvary Cemetery
- The Calvary Cemetery is located in Santa Cruz County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calvary Cemetery
- Castroville Public Cemetery
- Chinese Cemetery
- The Chinese Cemetery is located in Monterey County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chinese Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Chinese Cemetery is located in Salinas.
- Day Valley Cemetery
- Evergreen Cemetery
- The Evergreen Cemetery is located in Santa Cruz County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evergreen Cemetery
- Hacienda Cemetery
- The Hacienda Cemetery is located in Santa Clara County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hacienda Cemetery
- Hambey Cemetery
- The Hambey Cemetery is located in Monterey County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hambey Cemetery
- Hidalgo Cemetery
- The Hidalgo Cemetery is located in Santa Clara County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hidalgo Cemetery
- Holy Cross Cemetery
- Home of Peace Cemetery
- The Home of Peace Cemetery is located in Santa Cruz County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Home of Peace Cemetery
- IOOF Cemetery
- The IOOF Cemetery is located in Santa Clara County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for IOOF Cemetery
- Monterey County Cemetery
- Continue List (11 more) ...
- Mt. Hope Cemetery
- The Mt. Hope Cemetery is located in Santa Clara County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mt. Hope Cemetery
- Oakwood Memorial Park
- Old Holy Cross Cemetery
- Old Mexican Cemetery
- The Old Mexican Cemetery is located in Santa Clara County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Mexican Cemetery
- Pajaro Valley Memorial Park
- Queen of Heaven Cemetery
- St. Francis Cemetery
- The St. Francis Cemetery is located in Santa Cruz County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Francis Cemetery
- St. Marys Cemetery
- The St. Marys Cemetery is located in Santa Clara County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Marys Cemetery
- San Juan Bautista Cemetery
- Santa Cruz Memorial Park
- Soquel Cemetery
For an expanded list with details, please visit our List of cemeteries.
List of neighboring communities ...
The following 21 communities are within 10 miles [16.1 km]<3> of the Watsonville Catholic Cemetery.
We've listed the following communities alphabetically:
- Amesti
- Aptos Hills - Larkin Valley
- Aptos
- Aromas
- Capitola
- Colache Town
- Colache Town is located in Santa Cruz County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colache Town
- Corralitos
- Day Valley
- Elkhorn
- Freedom
- Interlaken
- La Selva Beach
- Continue List (9 more) ...
- Las Lomas
- Moss Landing
- Pajaro
- Rio del Mar
- River Oaks
- Strongs Mobile Village
- Sveadal
- Vega ‑ Historic
- Vega is located in Monterey County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vega
- Watsonville
For the full list of neighboring communities with details, please visit our extended List of Communities.
Nearby communities with newspapers ...
The following communities are those where newspapers have been published and are located in the vicinity of the Watsonville Catholic Cemetery. Unless otherwise noted, the following communities are located in Santa Cruz County.
More information can be found on our list of Local Newspapers for The Watsonville Catholic Cemetery.
We've listed the following communities alphabetically.
- Aptos
- Capitola
- Castroville
- Pajaro
- Soquel
- Watsonville
Websites to help with your research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their websites are open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that might help with the Watsonville Catholic Cemetery:
- Pages specific to California:
- Pages specific to Santa Cruz County:
- Genealogy information for nearby counties:
- Cemetery Information and Directories:
Miscellaneous References and Mentions ...
Our approach is to add the name of a cemetery whenever we see it mentioned - usually from newspapers, old books and maps. Typically we have little information to start with, but we continue to add detail as we find it.
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that we found useful for the Watsonville Catholic Cemetery:
Referenced Find-A-Grave Entry: #2145531
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> | If you're interested in how the shape of California's counties, including Santa Cruz, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Watsonville Catholic Cemetery) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
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