Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Blue Water Beach during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Blue Water Beach 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 Blue Water Beach (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 Blue Water Beach. 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 Blue Water Beach ...
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 Blue Water Beach: Blue Water Bch.
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 Blue Water Beach ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Blue Water Beach.
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 Blue Water Beach covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Blue Water Beach, with the one closest to Blue Water Beach listed first.
- Maitland Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Maitland Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Maitland Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the east of Goderich.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2195160 <2>
- Colborne Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Colborne Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Colborne Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the east of Goderich.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2310774 <2>
- Ball's Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ball's Cemetery
- The Ball's Cemetery has also been known as:
- Ball's Burial Ground / Ball's Methodist Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2264299 <2>
- Bayfield Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Clinton Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Clinton Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Clinton Cemetery is located outside and to the north of Clinton.
- The Clinton Cemetery has also been known as:
- Clinton Public Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2297651 <2>
- Dungannon Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dungannon Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Dungannon Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the west of Dungannon.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2210735 <2>
- Lutheran / German Evangelical Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lutheran / German Evangelical Cemetery
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Lutheran / German Evangelical Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Lutheran / German Evangelical Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<4> to the east of Blyth.
- Blyth Union Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Blyth Union Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Blyth Union Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the west of Blyth.
- The Blyth Union Cemetery has also been known as:
- Union Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2177169 <2>
- Westfield Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- St. Augustine RC Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- St. Joseph's RC Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Harpurhey Presbyterian Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (48 more) ...
- St. James Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- St. Michael's RC Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Greenhill Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Greenhill Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Greenhill Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Lucknow.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2173959 <2>
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Blue Water Beach. See our List of 1890's Communities around Blue Water Beach.
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 Blue Water Beach:
- Websites specific to Ontario
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Ontario
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Province of Ontario: https://www.ontario.ca/
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 Blue Water Beach and then turned west". While Blue Water Beach could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Blue Water Beach 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 Miller Creek to see Pete ... Miller Creek 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 Blue Water Beach 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 Ontario community named Blue Water Beach. |
| <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> | 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. |
| <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- Blue Water Beach) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Blue Water Beach. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.7175, Longitude: -81.7219 |