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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 Sherwood (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 Sherwood. 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.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Sherwood is located in Talbot County.

To see how the shape of Maryland's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Talbot County: Caroline, Dorchester & Queen Anne's.

Below are the counties that are near Sherwood. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Sherwood:

  • Talbot County     (The home county of Sherwood)
  • Anne Arundel County
  • Calvert County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sherwood, with the one closest to Sherwood listed first.
    • North Beach
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Chesapeake Beach
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Summer City
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Summer City is located in Calvert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summer City
    • Willows
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Owings Town Center
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Owings Town Center is located in Calvert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owings Town Center
    • Owings
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Angelica
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Sunderland
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Chaney
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Parran
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Parran is located in Calvert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parran
    • Apple Greene
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Dunkirk Town Center
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Dunkirk Town Center is located in Calvert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunkirk Town Center
    • Dunkirk
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Caroline County
  • Charles County
  • Dorchester County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sherwood, with the one closest to Sherwood listed first.
    • Hills Point
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Hills Point is located in Dorchester County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hills Point
    • James
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Thomas
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Lloyds
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Algonquin
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Algonquin is located in Dorchester County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Algonquin
    • Madison
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Cambridge
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Patamoke Village
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Patamoke Village is located in Dorchester County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patamoke Village
    • Woolford
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Woolford is located in Dorchester County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woolford
    • Taylors Island
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Church Creek
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Secretary
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Thompson
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Thompson is located in Dorchester County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thompson
  • Kent County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sherwood, with the one closest to Sherwood listed first.
    • Cliffs City
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Cliffs City is located in Kent County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cliffs City
    • Rock Hall
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Edesville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Old Town
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Old Town is located in Kent County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Town
    • Pomona
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Prince George's County
  • Queen Anne's County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sherwood, with the one closest to Sherwood listed first.
    • Mattapex
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Bay City
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Bay City is located in Queen Anne's County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bay City
    • Cheslou Village
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Cheslou Village is located in Queen Anne's County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cheslou Village
    • Chester
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Kent Narrows
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Kent Narrows is located in Queen Anne's County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kent Narrows
    • Grasonville
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Guys
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Guys is located in Queen Anne's County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guys
    • Stevensville
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Bloomingdale
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Queenstown
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Queenstown is located in Queen Anne's County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Queenstown
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 701 people
    • Willoughby
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Queen Anne
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Centreville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
  • Saint Mary's County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sherwood, with the one closest to Sherwood listed first.
    • Golden Beach
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Golden Beach is located in Saint Mary's County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden Beach
    • Sotterley
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Sherwood, see our County-by-County Page for Sherwood.

Cemeteries Near Sherwood ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sherwood.

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.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Sherwood - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Sherwood covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Sherwood, with the one closest to Sherwood listed first.

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<4>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Sherwood had a population of 75 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Sherwood, with the one closest to Sherwood listed first.

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Sherwood. See our List of 1890's Communities around Sherwood.

Newspapers Published in Sherwood ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 5 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sherwood.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sherwood, there are papers which were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sherwood.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Sherwood:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>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.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Sherwood) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Sherwood, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.