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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 West Stewartstown (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 Stewartstown. 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 Stewartstown ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for West Stewartstown: W. Stewartstown

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.

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 doctors 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.

West Stewartstown is located in Coos County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Coos County: Oxford (ME), Carroll, Grafton & Essex (VT).

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

  • Coos County     (The home county of West Stewartstown)
  • Oxford County (ME)
    • The following are listed by their distance from West Stewartstown, with the one closest to West Stewartstown listed first.
    • Wilsons Mills
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Lincoln Plantation
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Lincoln Plantation is located in Oxford County (ME)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln Plantation
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 44 people
    • Magalloway Plantation
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Magalloway Plantation is located in Oxford County (ME)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magalloway Plantation
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 45 people
  • Caledonia County (VT)
    • Newark
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Newark is located in Caledonia County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newark
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 589 people
  • Essex County (VT)
    • The following are listed by their distance from West Stewartstown, with the one closest to West Stewartstown listed first.
    • Beecher Falls
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Canaan
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Canaan is located in Essex County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canaan
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 912 people
    • Averill
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Averill is located in Essex County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Averill
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 25 people
    • Averill
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Lemington
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Lemington is located in Essex County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lemington
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 97 people
    • Bloomfield
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Bloomfield is located in Essex County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomfield
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 234 people
    • Lewis
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Lewis is located in Essex County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewis
    • Norton
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Norton is located in Essex County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 156 people
    • Avery's Gore
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Avery's Gore is located in Essex County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avery's Gore
    • Bloomfield
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Warren's Gore
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Warren's Gore is located in Essex County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warren's Gore
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4 people
    • Brunswick Springs
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Brunswick
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Brunswick is located in Essex County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brunswick
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 101 people
  • Orleans County (VT)
    • The following are listed by their distance from West Stewartstown, with the one closest to West Stewartstown listed first.
    • Holland
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Holland is located in Orleans County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holland
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 608 people
    • Morgan
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Morgan is located in Orleans County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morgan
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 695 people
    • Holland
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • East Charleston
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Charleston
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Charleston is located in Orleans County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charleston
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 984 people
    • West Charleston
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Derby Line
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Westmore
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Westmore is located in Orleans County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westmore
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 312 people
    • Beebe Plain
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Derby Center
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Derby Center is located in Orleans County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Derby Center
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 550 people
    • Derby
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Derby is located in Orleans County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Derby
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,184 people

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

Cemeteries Near West Stewartstown ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of West Stewartstown.

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 West Stewartstown - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from West Stewartstown, with the one closest to West Stewartstown 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 West Stewartstown had a population of 325 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

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

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of West Stewartstown ...

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 11 newspapers that have been published in the area around West Stewartstown.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of West Stewartstown. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of West Stewartstown and those printed in the larger area surrounding West Stewartstown.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<3> of West Stewartstown.

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 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 Stewartstown:

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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- West Stewartstown) 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 West Stewartstown, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.