Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of West Sackville during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how West Sackville 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 West Sackville (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 West Sackville. 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 West Sackville ...
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.
For example, a typical abbreviation for West Sackville: W. Sackville
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 West Sackville ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of West Sackville.
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 West Sackville covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from West Sackville, with the one closest to West Sackville listed first.
- Sackville Rural Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Methodist Burying Ground
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Four Corners Burying Ground
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- St. Denis Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Point de Bute Methodist Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Point de Bute Methodist Cemetery
- The Point de Bute Methodist Cemetery has also been known as:
- First Methodist Cemetery
- First Methodist Church Cemetery
- Pointe de Bute Methodist Cemetery
- Pointe de Bute United Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2297094 <2>
- Dorchester Rural Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Amherst Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- St. Charles - Nativity RC Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Lower Cape Mountain View Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lower Cape Mountain View Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Lower Cape Mountain View Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located between<3> the communities of Cape Station and Lower Cape. The cemetery lies less than 2 miles<4> to the southwest of Lower Cape.
- The Lower Cape Mountain View Cemetery has also been known as:
- Calkins Cemetery
- Lower Cape Baptist Church Cemetery
- Lower Mountain View Cemetery
- Mountain View Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2262706 <2>
- Rockport Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Maccan United Baptist Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Fenwick Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (59 more) ...
- Edgetts Landing Greenhill Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- River Hebert Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Hillside Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around West Sackville. See our List of 1890's Communities around West Sackville.
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 West Sackville:
- 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 West Sackville and then turned east". While West Sackville could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added West Sackville 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 West Sackville 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 West Sackville. |
| <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> | To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Cape Station and Lower Cape. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location. |
| <4> | 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- West Sackville) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in West Sackville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.8667, Longitude: -64.3833 |