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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 Bishop (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 Bishop. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

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 south 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.

Bishop is located in Aroostook County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Aroostook County: Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset & Washington.

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

  • Aroostook County     (The home county of Bishop)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bishop, with the one closest to Bishop listed first.
    • Grimes Mill
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Grimes Mill is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grimes Mill
    • East Lyndon
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • East Lyndon is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Lyndon
    • Hurd
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
      • Hurd is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurd
    • Somers Corner
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Somers Corner is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Somers Corner
    • McGraw
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • McGraw is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McGraw
      • McGraw has also been known as:
      • McGraw Siding
    • Caribou
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Morris Corner
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Morris Corner is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morris Corner
    • Barretts
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • Barretts is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barretts
    • Fort Fairfield
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Limestone
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • North Lyndon
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • North Lyndon is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Lyndon
    • Crouseville
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Crouseville is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crouseville
    • Adaline
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Adaline is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adaline

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

Cemeteries Near Bishop ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bishop.

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 Bishop - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Doyle Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Grimes Kelly Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Bubar Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Walton Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Old Catholic Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Lyndon Center Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Green Ridge Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Cochran Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Holy Rosary Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Webster Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webster Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Webster Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located less than 2 miles<2> to the southwest of Limestone.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #90676 <3>
  • New Holy Rosary Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (122 more) ...
    • Maine Veterans Memorial Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Harvey Hill Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • First St. Denis Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)

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>

While we didn't find Bishop in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Bishop.

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

  • East Lyndon
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • East Lyndon is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Lyndon
  • Hurd
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Hurd is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurd
  • Roberts
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Roberts is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roberts
  • Caribou
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Parkhurst
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Parkhurst is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkhurst
  • Fort Fairfield
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Limestone
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Maple Grove
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Maple Grove is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Grove
  • North Lyndon
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • North Lyndon is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Lyndon
  • Washburn
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Presque Isle
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Acadia
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Acadia is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acadia
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • New Sweden
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Caswell
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Caswell is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caswell
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 281 people
    • Perham
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in Bishop ...

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 20 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bishop.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bishop, there are papers which were published within 11 miles [17.7 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Bishop.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Bishop:

  • Genealogy information for nearby counties

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>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Bishop) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<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 Bishop, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.