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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 Brant (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 Brant. 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.

Cemeteries Near Brant ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Brant.

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

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

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

  • Grace Anglican Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grace Anglican Cemetery
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Grace Anglican Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Grace Anglican Cemetery is located in Brantford.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2618186 <2>
  • Farrington Burial Ground
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Farrington Burial Ground
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Farrington Burial Ground is a large cemetery that is located in Brantford.
    • The Farrington Burial Ground has also been known as:
    • Farringdon Cemetery
    • Farringdon Independent Church Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2140650 <2>
  • Greenwood Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Mt. Hope Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Beth David Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Beth David Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Beth David Cemetery is located in Brantford.
    • The Beth David Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Brantford Jewish Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2318360 <2>
  • St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Brantford.
    • The St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery has also been known as:
    • St. Joseph's Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2197757 <2>
  • Oakhill Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Oakhill Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Oakhill Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the west of Brantford.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2219390 <2>
  • Mohawk Chapel Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mohawk Chapel Cemetery
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Mohawk Chapel Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Mohawk Chapel Cemetery is located outside and to the southeast of Brantford.
    • The Mohawk Chapel Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Her Majesty's Chapel of the Mohawks Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #639428 <2>
  • Tranquility Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Campbell Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Campbell Cemetery
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Campbell Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Campbell Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<3> to the north of Brantford.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2396235 <2>
  • Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • All Saints Anglican Church Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
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    • Salt Spring Church Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Salt Spring Church Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Salt Spring Church Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<3> to the southeast of Brantford.
      • The Salt Spring Church Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Salt Springs United Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2322275 <2>
    • Holy Cross Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Holy Cross Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Holy Cross Cemetery is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<3> to the northwest of Brantford.
      • The Holy Cross Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1981503 <2>
    • Tapley Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)

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

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 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 Brant:

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Brant) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Brant. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.1392, Longitude: -80.2814