Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Kerrs Ridge during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Kerrs Ridge 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 Kerrs Ridge (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 Kerrs Ridge. 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 Kerrs Ridge ...
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 have occurred.
- A typical abbreviation for Kerrs Ridge: Kerrs Rdg. (or less commonly used: Kerrs Rdge. or Kerrs Ridg.)
- While the name of this community is Kerrs Ridge, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<2>. So Kerrs Ridge may originally have been Kerr's Ridge.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Kerrs Ridge might be written as Kerr Ridge.
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 Kerrs Ridge ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Kerrs Ridge.
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 Kerrs Ridge covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Kerrs Ridge, with the one closest to Kerrs Ridge listed first.
- Bocabec Community Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Bocabec Presbyterian Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Lower Elmsville Historic Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Waweig United Church Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Bartletts Mills Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bartletts Mills Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Bartletts Mills Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<4> to the northwest of Oak Bay.
- The Bartletts Mills Cemetery has also been known as:
- Bartlett Family Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2246144 <3>
- Chapel of Ease of St. John the Baptist Church Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Church of the Transfiguration Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Sandy Point Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Bayside United Baptist Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bayside United Baptist Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Bayside United Baptist Cemetery is located outside and to the northwest of Bayside.
- The Bayside United Baptist Cemetery has also been known as:
- Bayside Baptist Cemetery
- Bayside United Baptist Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2511464 <3>
- St. Andrew's RC Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- St. Andrews Rural Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Second Falls Baptist Church Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Continue List (56 more) ...
- Second Falls United Baptist Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Rollingdam United Baptist Cemeteries
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rollingdam United Baptist Cemeteries
- The Rollingdam United Baptist Cemeteries has also been known as:
- Rolling Dam Baptist Cemetery
- Rolling Dam Baptist Cemetery
- Rolling Dam United Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2358847 <3>
- Oak Bay Rural Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 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 Kerrs Ridge. See our List of 1890's Communities around Kerrs Ridge.
Newspapers Published in Kerrs Ridge ...
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 18 newspapers that have been published in the area around Kerrs Ridge.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Kerrs Ridge, there are papers which were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Kerrs Ridge.
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 professional and volunteer 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 Kerrs Ridge:
- Websites specific to New Brunswick
- Cemetery Information and Directories for New Brunswick
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Province of New Brunswick: https://www.gnb.ca/
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 north past Kerrs Ridge and then turned west". While Kerrs Ridge could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Kerrs Ridge 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 Kerrs Ridge 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 Kerrs Ridge. |
| <2> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <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> | 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- Kerrs Ridge) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Kerrs Ridge. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.2167, Longitude: -67.0167 |