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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 Mount Hope (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 Mount Hope. 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 Mount Hope ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Mount Hope: Mt. Hope

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Mount Hope. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Mount Hope.

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 Mount Hope ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Mount Hope.

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.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Mount Hope - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Mount Hope covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • St. Josephs Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Mt. Hope Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Temple Israel Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Westchester Hills Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Stephen Wise Free Synagogue Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Cooke Family Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • St. Marys Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • St. John's Episcopal Church Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • St. Johns Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Johns Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Johns Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Yonkers.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #66010 <1>
  • Oakland Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakland Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Oakland Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Yonkers.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #65498 <1>
  • Holy Mount Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Ferncliff Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ferncliff Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Ferncliff Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Hartsdale.
    • The Ferncliff Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Hartsdale Ferncliff Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #64525 <1>
  • Continue List   (526 more) ...

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

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.<2>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Mount Hope had a post office and railroad service.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Mount Hope, with the one closest to Mount Hope listed first.

  • Hastings-on-Hudson
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Dobbs Ferry
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Ardsley
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Ardsley is located in Westchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ardsley
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,502 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ardsley <3>
  • Chauncey
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Chauncey is located in Westchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chauncey
  • Nepperhan
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Nepperhan is located in Westchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nepperhan
  • Bryn Mawr Park
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Bryn Mawr Park is located in Westchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bryn Mawr Park
  • Woodlands
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Woodlands is located in Westchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodlands
  • Palisades
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Glenwood
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Glenwood is located in Westchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenwood
  • Bronxville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Tuckahoe
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Irvington
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Ludlow
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
      • Ludlow is located in Westchester County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ludlow
    • Yonkers
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
      • Yonkers is located in Westchester County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yonkers
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 200,040 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Yonkers <3>
    • Park Hill
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
      • Park Hill is located in Westchester County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park Hill

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

Newspapers Published in Mount Hope ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

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 103 newspapers that have been published in the area around Mount Hope.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Mount Hope, there are papers which were published within 9 miles [14.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Mount Hope.

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 Mount Hope:

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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 Mount Hope, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Mount Hope) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.