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 Chats Haven (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 Chats Haven. 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 Chats Haven ...

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.

A typical abbreviation for Chats Haven: Chats Hvn. (or less commonly used: Chats Havn.)

While the name of this community is Chats Haven, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Chats Haven may originally have been Chat's Haven.

Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Chats Haven might be written as Chat Haven.

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.

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 Chats Haven:

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

Cemeteries Near Chats Haven ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Chats Haven.

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

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

Albert Street Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- The Albert Street Cemetery has also been known as:
- Arnprior Protestant Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Albert Street Cemetery
Malloch Road Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- The Malloch Road Cemetery has also been known as:
- Arnprior RC Cemetery
- St. John Chrysostom Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Malloch Road Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2362975 <2>
Galetta Hunt Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- The Galetta Hunt Cemetery has also been known as:
- Hunt Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Galetta Hunt Cemetery
St. Mark's Anglican Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Mark's Anglican Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2400695 <2>
Pakenham Union Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- The Pakenham Union Cemetery has also been known as:
- Dalkeith Street Cemetery
- Union Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pakenham Union Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2315063 <2>
White Lake Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the White Lake Cemetery
Indian Hill Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Indian Hill Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2377170 <2>
Zion Memorial Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Zion Memorial Cemetery
Diamond Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- The Diamond Cemetery has also been known as:
- Diamond Methodist / United Church Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Diamond Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2502007 <2>
Epworth United Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- The Epworth United Cemetery has also been known as:
- Epworth Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Epworth United Cemetery
Lowry Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- The Lowry Cemetery has also been known as:
- Lowry Presbyterian Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lowry Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2531727 <2>
Thompson Hill Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Thompson Hill Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southeast of Renfrew.
- The Thompson Hill Cemetery has also been known as:
- Renfrew Public Cemetery
- Thompsonville Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Thompson Hill Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2157531 <2>
Continue List (34 more) ...
- Auld Kirk Cemetery
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Auld Kirk Cemetery
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2220142 <2>
- Clayton United Church Cemetery
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
  - To give a relative sense of its location, the Clayton United Church Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Clayton.
  - The Clayton United Church Cemetery has also been known as:
  - Clayton Cemetery
  - Guthrie United Church Cemetery
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Clayton United Church Cemetery
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2265997 <2>
- Bellamy Mills Cemetery
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
  - To give a relative sense of its location, the Bellamy Mills Cemetery is located outside and to the southeast of Clayton.
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bellamy Mills Cemetery

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

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

Footnotes ...

<1>	It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
<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.