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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 Newtown (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 Newtown. 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.

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 southeast 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 south.

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 south 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.

Newtown is located in Suffolk County.

To see how the shape of New York's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Below are the counties that are near Newtown. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Newtown:

  • Suffolk County     (The home county of Newtown)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Newtown, with the one closest to Newtown listed first.
    • Squiretown
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Squiretown is located in Suffolk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Squiretown
    • Hampton Bays
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Shinnecock Hills
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Shinnecock Hills is located in Suffolk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shinnecock Hills
    • Art Village
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
      • Art Village is located in Suffolk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Art Village
    • Tuckahoe
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
      • Tuckahoe is located in Suffolk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuckahoe
    • East Quogue
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Southampton
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Southampton is located in Suffolk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southampton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,313 people
      • Southampton has also been known as:
      • Southampton village
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Southampton <1>
    • North Sea
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • North Sea is located in Suffolk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Sea
    • Jamesport
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Laurel
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Quogue
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Flanders
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Middlesex County (CT)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Newtown, with the one closest to Newtown listed first.
    • Clinton
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Grove Beach
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Grove Beach is located in Middlesex County (CT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grove Beach
    • Plum Bank Beach
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Plum Bank Beach is located in Middlesex County (CT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plum Bank Beach
    • Clinton
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Clinton is located in Middlesex County (CT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clinton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 12,881 people
    • Fenwick
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Fenwick is located in Middlesex County (CT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fenwick
    • Saybrook Manor
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Saybrook Manor is located in Middlesex County (CT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saybrook Manor
    • Westbrook
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Westbrook is located in Middlesex County (CT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westbrook
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,842 people
    • Westbrook
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Old Saybrook
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Old Saybrook is located in Middlesex County (CT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Saybrook
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 10,028 people
    • Old Saybrook
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • New Haven County (CT)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Newtown, with the one closest to Newtown listed first.
    • East River
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • East River is located in New Haven County (CT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East River
    • Madison
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Guilford
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Stony Creek
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Stony Creek is located in New Haven County (CT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stony Creek
    • Pine Orchard
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Pine Orchard is located in New Haven County (CT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Orchard

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Newtown, see our County-by-County Page for Newtown.

Cemeteries Near Newtown ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Newtown.

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 Newtown - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Good Grond Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Shinnecock Indian Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • East Quogue Methodist Church Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • North End Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary RC Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Southampton Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • North Sea Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Old Southampton Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Jamesport Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Mattituck Presbyterian Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Bethany Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Laurel Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (131 more) ...
    • Flying Point Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Aquebogue Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Water Mill Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)

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.<3>

While we didn't find Newtown in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Newtown.

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

  • Shinnecock Hills
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Shinnecock Hills is located in Suffolk County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shinnecock Hills
  • East Quogue
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Southampton
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Southampton is located in Suffolk County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southampton
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,313 people
    • Southampton has also been known as:
    • Southampton village
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Southampton <1>
  • Quogue
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Jamesport
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Flanders
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Mattituck
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • New Suffolk
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Aquebogue
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Watermill
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Watermill is located in Suffolk County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watermill
  • Riverhead
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Westhampton
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Newtown ...

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 110 newspapers that have been published in the area around Newtown.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Newtown, there are papers which were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Newtown.

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 Newtown:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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.
<3>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 Newtown, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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 from Point A (ie- Newtown) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.