Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

Although we found mention of Upper Southwest Mabou during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Upper Southwest Mabou 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 Upper Southwest Mabou (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 Upper Southwest Mabou. 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 Upper Southwest Mabou ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Upper Southwest Mabou.

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 Upper Southwest Mabou covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Upper Southwest Mabou, with the one closest to Upper Southwest Mabou listed first.

Upper River Denys Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Upper River Denys Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2615031 <2>
St. Mary's Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Mary's Cemetery
- The St. Mary's Cemetery has also been known as:
- St. Mary's RC Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1985758 <2>
Elmwood Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Elmwood Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2385206 <2>
Stewartdale Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stewartdale Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2305451 <2>
Lime Hill Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lime Hill Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2564637 <2>
St. Matthew's Corner Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Matthew's Corner Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2531631 <2>
St. Paul's RC Church Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Paul's RC Church Cemetery
- The St. Paul's RC Church Cemetery has also been known as:
- St. Paul's Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2377713 <2>
St. David's Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. David's Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2627395 <2>
St. Lawrence RC Church Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Lawrence RC Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2319722 <2>
Chapel Hill Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chapel Hill Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Chapel Hill Cemetery is located in Port Hawkesbury.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2646688 <2>
St. Joseph's Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Joseph's Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2489151 <2>
Southbrook Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Southbrook Cemetery
- The Southbrook Cemetery has also been known as:
- South Brook Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2517615 <2>
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- St. Peter's Catholic Church Cemetery
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Peter's Catholic Church Cemetery
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2420079 <2>
- Ballantyne's Cove Cemetery
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ballantyne's Cove Cemetery
  - The Ballantyne's Cove Cemetery has also been known as:
  - Holy Rosary Cemetery
  - Our Lady of the Rosary Church Cemetery
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2624990 <2>
- Black Loyalist Cemetery
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Black Loyalist Cemetery

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

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 Upper Southwest Mabou:

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

Cemetery Information and Directories for 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

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 Upper Southwest Mabou and then turned west". While Upper Southwest Mabou could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Upper Southwest Mabou 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 Upper Southwest Mabou 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 Upper Southwest Mabou.

<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.