Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Clifton during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Clifton 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 Clifton (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 Clifton. 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.
Cemeteries Near Clifton ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Clifton.
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 Clifton covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Clifton, with the one closest to Clifton listed first.
- Old Barns Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Oak Island Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Fisher Creek Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Belmont - Cross Road Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Calvary Union Church Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Calvary Union Church Cemetery
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Calvary Union Church Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Belmont Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Belmont Baptist Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Folly Village Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Debert Cemetery, Plains Road
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Debert Cemetery, Middle Road
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Debert Cemetery, Middle Road
- The Debert Cemetery, Middle Road has also been known as:
- Middle Road Cemetery
- Lower Pleasant Valley Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- John Calvin Christian Reformed Church Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
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- Terrace Hill Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Terrace Hill Cemetery
- The Terrace Hill Cemetery has also been known as:
- Kaulback Cemetery
- St. John's Anglican Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2213057 <3>
- Truro Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Truro Cemetery
- The Truro Cemetery has also been known as:
- Immaculate Conception Cemetery
- Robie Street Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2194987 <3>
- Onslow Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Clifton. See our List of 1890's Communities around Clifton.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we start 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 Clifton:
- Websites specific to Nova Scotia
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Nova Scotia
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Province of Nova Scotia: https://novascotia.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 south past Clifton and then turned east". While Clifton could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Clifton 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Clifton 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 Nova Scotia community named Clifton. |
| <2> | 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- Clifton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Clifton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.3356, Longitude: -63.4442 |
| <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> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |