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 Hampton Manor (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 Hampton Manor. 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 Hampton Manor ...
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.
For example, a typical abbreviation for Hampton Manor: Hampton Mnr.
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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
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 east contained birth and death records; the county to the north 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.
Below are the counties that are near Hampton Manor. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Hampton Manor:
Rensselaer County (The home county of Hampton Manor)
The following are listed by their distance from Hampton Manor, with the one closest to Hampton Manor listed first.
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Defreestville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Normansville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for West Albany. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
The following are listed by their distance from Hampton Manor, with the one closest to Hampton Manor listed first.
North Chatham (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for North Chatham. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Riders Mills (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Riders Mills. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Chatham Center (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Chatham Center. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
New Britain ‑ Historic (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for New Britain. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for New Concord. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
The following are listed by their distance from Hampton Manor, with the one closest to Hampton Manor listed first.
Burtonsville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Burtonsville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Groom Corners. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Willow Glen. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
East Glenville (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for East Glenville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Center Cambridge (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Center Cambridge. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Center White Creek (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Center White Creek. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Coltsville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hampton Manor.
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 Hampton Manor covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Hampton Manor, with the one closest to Hampton Manor listed first.
Greenbush Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rensselaer Rural Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the north)
To give a relative sense of its location, the Our Lady Help of Christians Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the east of Bethlehem Center.
The Our Lady Help of Christians Cemetery has also been known as:
To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Matthew Lutheran Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southeast of Bethlehem Center.
The St. Matthew Lutheran Cemetery has also been known as:
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Blooming Grove Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Edward Haswell Family Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
To give a relative sense of its location, the Edward Haswell Family Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<5> to the east of Bethlehem Center.
The Edward Haswell Family Cemetery has also been known as:
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Bussing Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
To give a relative sense of its location, the Bussing Cemetery is located outside and to the west of Bethlehem Center.
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Westervelt Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
To give a relative sense of its location, the Westervelt Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<5> to the southwest of Beckers Corners.
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.<6>
While we didn't find Hampton Manor in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Hampton Manor.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Hampton Manor, with the one closest to Hampton Manor listed first.
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Defreestville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Normansville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for West Albany. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
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 157 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hampton Manor.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hampton Manor, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Hampton Manor.
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 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 Hampton Manor:
The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
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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.
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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.
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Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Hampton Manor) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Hampton Manor. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.6209, Longitude: -73.7285 In this case, the coordinates for Hampton Manor have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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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 Hampton Manor, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.