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 Ricketts Bridge (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 Ricketts Bridge. 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 Ricketts Bridge ...

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 Ricketts Bridge: Ricketts Brg. (or less commonly used: Ricketts Brdg. or Ricketts Brdge.)

• While the name of this community is Ricketts Bridge, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Ricketts Bridge may originally have been Rickett's Bridge.
  
  Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Ricketts Bridge might be written as Rickett Bridge.

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.

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 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 Ricketts Bridge:

• Websites specific to Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Newfoundland and Labrador
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Newfoundland and Labrador

Cemeteries Near Ricketts Bridge ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Ricketts Bridge.

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 Ricketts Bridge covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

• Belvedre Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Belvedre Cemetery
• Anglican Cemetery, St. John's
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • The Anglican Cemetery, St. John's has also been known as:
  • Forest Road Anglican Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Anglican Cemetery, St. John's
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2360525 <2>
• Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1783142 <2>
• General Protestant Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the General Protestant Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2340257 <2>
• Chapel Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chapel Cemetery
• Holy Trinity Parish Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Holy Trinity Parish Cemetery
• St. Nicholas Anglican Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Nicholas Anglican Cemetery
• Holy Sepulchre Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2192719 <2>
• Anglican Cemetery, Mt. Pearl
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • The Anglican Cemetery, Mt. Pearl has also been known as:
  • Kenmount Road Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Anglican Cemetery, Mt. Pearl
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2214095 <2>
• Blackhead RC Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Blackhead RC Cemetery is located outside and to the southeast of Saint John's.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Blackhead RC Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2605769 <2>
• West Point Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the West Point Cemetery
• Presentation Anglican Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • The Presentation Anglican Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Presentation Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Presentation Anglican Cemetery
• Continue List   (47 more) ...
  • Petty Harbour RC Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Petty Harbour RC Cemetery
  • Petty Harbour / Maddox Cove Anglican Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Petty Harbour / Maddox Cove Anglican Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2465506 <2>
  • Bell Island RC Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bell Island RC Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2499203 <2>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Ricketts Bridge. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Province of Newfoundland and Labrador: https://www.gov.nl.ca/