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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 North Pelham (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 North Pelham. 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 North Pelham ...

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 North Pelham: N. Pelham

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

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 North Pelham ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of North Pelham.

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 North Pelham - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Holy Sepulchre Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Beechwoods Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Blessed Sacrament Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Trinity Protestant Episcopal Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Seacord Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Bronxville Presbyterian Church Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • St. Pauls Protestant Episcopal Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Flandreau Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Quaker Burial Grounds
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Sherwood Park Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Woodlawn Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Florence - Powell Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
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    • Disbrow Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Delancey Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Palmer Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)

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>

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

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

  • Pelham
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Pelham is located in Westchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pelham
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,917 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pelham <3>
  • Mount Vernon
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Pelham Manor
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • New Rochelle
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Bronxville
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Eastchester
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Tuckahoe
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Larchmont
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Bryn Mawr Park
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Bryn Mawr Park is located in Westchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bryn Mawr Park
  • Dunwoodie
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Dunwoodie is located in Westchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunwoodie
  • Mamaroneck
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Nepperhan
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Nepperhan is located in Westchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nepperhan
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    • Yonkers
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • 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>
    • Ludlow
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • Ludlow is located in Westchester County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ludlow
    • Park Hill
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • 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 North Pelham. See our List of 1890's Communities around North Pelham.

Newspapers Published in North Pelham ...

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 39 newspapers that have been published in the area around North Pelham.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of North Pelham, there are papers which were published within 8 miles [12.9 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for North Pelham.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 North Pelham:

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 North Pelham, 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 '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- North Pelham) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.