Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Locks Island. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Locks Island to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Locks Island, please Contact Us.

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 Locks Island (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 Locks Island. 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 Locks Island ...

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 Locks Island: Locks Is. (in Canada, 'Isld.' is the more common abbreviation.)

While the name of this community is Locks Island, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<2>. So Locks Island may originally have been Lock's Island.

Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Locks Island might be written as Lock Island.

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 Locks Island ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Locks Island.

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 Locks Island covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

Lydgate Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lydgate Cemetery
Osborne Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Osborne Cemetery
Rockland Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rockland Cemetery
Allendale Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Allendale Cemetery
Woodlawn Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Woodlawn Cemetery
Buchanan Memorial Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Buchanan Memorial Cemetery
Dall Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dall Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Dall Cemetery is located outside and to the southeast of Lower Sandy Point.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2647200 <3>
Christ Church Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Christ Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2413588 <3>
Pine Grove Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pine Grove Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2358436 <3>
Pleasant Plain Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pleasant Plain Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Pleasant Plain Cemetery is located outside and to the west of North East Harbour.
Clyde River Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Clyde River Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2451598 <3>
Port Clyde Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Port Clyde Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2445785 <3>
Continue List (17 more) ...
- Laurel Hill Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Laurel Hill Cemetery
  - The Laurel Hill Cemetery has also been known as:
  - River Head Cemetery
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2497573 <3>
- Woodside Cemetery
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Woodside Cemetery
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2440494 <3>
- Bonnycastle Cemetery
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bonnycastle Cemetery

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

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 helpful 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 Locks Island:

Websites specific to Nova Scotia
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Province of Nova Scotia: https://novascotia.ca/

Footnotes ...

<1>	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 Locks Island, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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.