Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

Although we found mention of Bellefleur Station during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Bellefleur Station was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..

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 Bellefleur Station (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 Bellefleur Station. 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.

Name Variations for Bellefleur Station ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Bellefleur Station: Bellefleur Sta. (in Canada, 'Stn.' is the more common abbreviation.)

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Bellefleur Station. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Bellefleur Station.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

Cemeteries Near Bellefleur Station ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bellefleur Station.

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 Bellefleur Station - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

St. Leonard Parent Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Leonard Parent Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2364141 <2>
St. Josephs Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Josephs Cemetery
Grand Riviere Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Riviere Cemetery
St. Leonard Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Leonard Cemetery
- The St. Leonard Cemetery has also been known as:
- St. Leonard Catholic Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2365489 <2>
St. Bruno - St. Remi Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Bruno - St. Remi Cemetery
- The St. Bruno - St. Remi Cemetery has also been known as:
- St. Bruno Cemetery
Assumption Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Assumption Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Assumption Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Grand Falls.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2404064 <2>
Assumption Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Assumption Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Assumption Cemetery is located in Grand Falls.
- The Assumption Cemetery has also been known as:
- Old Assumption Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2365648 <2>
Houghton Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Houghton Cemetery
Howland Family Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howland Family Cemetery
Caldwell Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caldwell Cemetery
Paroisse Saint-Michel Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paroisse Saint-Michel Cemetery
- The Paroisse Saint-Michel Cemetery has also been known as:
- St. Michel Parish Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2364123 <2>
First St. Theresa Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for First St. Theresa Cemetery
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- St. Theresas Catholic Cemetery
  (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Theresas Catholic Cemetery
  - To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Theresas Catholic Cemetery is located outside and to the south of Stockholm (ME).
  - The St. Theresas Catholic Cemetery has also been known as:
  - St. Theresa Cemetery
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1967632 <2>
- Sacred Heart Cemetery
  (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sacred Heart Cemetery
  - To give a relative sense of its location, the Sacred Heart Cemetery is located in the vicinity of North Lyndon (ME)
- St. Louis Cemetery
  (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Louis Cemetery

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

Newspapers Published in Bellefleur Station ...

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 12 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bellefleur Station.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bellefleur Station, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Bellefleur Station.

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 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 Bellefleur Station:

Websites specific to New Brunswick
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search

Cemetery Information and Directories for New Brunswick
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of New Brunswick
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of New Brunswick
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of New Brunswick

Footnotes ...

<1>	If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went south past Bellefleur Station and then turned east". While Bellefleur Station could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Bellefleur Station as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Miller Creek to see Pete ... Miller Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Bellefleur Station could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong . Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. Since confusion between is common, we searched and weren't able to find another New Brunswick community named Bellefleur Station.
<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 '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- Bellefleur Station) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.