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 Brinston (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 Brinston. 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 Brinston ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Brinston.

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 Brinston covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

• Spruce Haven Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Spruce Haven Cemetery
• Dixons Corners South / Wesleyan Methodist Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dixons Corners South / Wesleyan Methodist Cemetery
• South Dixon's Corners Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the South Dixon's Corners Cemetery
• Williamsburg Union Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Williamsburg Union Cemetery
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Williamsburg Union Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northwest of Williamsburg.
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2431128 <1>
• Bouck's Hill Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bouck's Hill Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2477207 <1>
• South Mountain Union Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the South Mountain Union Cemetery
  • The South Mountain Union Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Union Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2353787 <1>
• Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Morrisburg.
  • The Mt. Pleasant Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Mariatown Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2333685 <1>
• Brown's Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Brown's Cemetery
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Brown's Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Winchester.
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2431075 <1>
• Maple Ridge Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Maple Ridge Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2226436 <1>
• Iroquois United Church Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Iroquois United Church Cemetery
  • The Iroquois United Church Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Iroquois Point Cemetery
  • Iroquois Presbyterian Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2630505 <1>
• Brookside Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Brookside Cemetery
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Brookside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
• St. Marys Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Marys Cemetery
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Marys Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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  • Union Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Union Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Union Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Scotch Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Scotch Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #66256 <1>
  • Lawrence Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lawrence Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lawrence Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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

Newspapers Published in Brinston ...

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 45 newspapers that have been published in the area around Brinston.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Brinston, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Brinston.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with 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 Brinston:

• Websites specific to Ontario
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Ontario
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Ontario
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Ontario
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Ontario
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Ontario

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Brinston. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Province of Ontario: https://www.ontario.ca/