Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Conroy during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Conroy 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 Conroy (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 Conroy. 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 Conroy ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Conroy.
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 Conroy covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Conroy, with the one closest to Conroy listed first.
- Old St. Marys Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- St. Mary's Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Broadview United Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Knox Presbyterian Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Gregory Family Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gregory Family Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Gregory Family Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Uniondale.
- Avondale Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Avondale Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Avondale Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Stratford.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #639403 <2>
- Avonbank Presbyterian Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Christ Church Anglican Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Lakeside Methodist Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Amish Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Sebringville Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sebringville Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Sebringville Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southeast of Sebringville.
- The Sebringville Cemetery has also been known as:
- Emmanuel United Church Cemetery
- Sebringville / Emmanuel United Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2203218 <2>
- St. Joseph's Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Continue List (259 more) ...
- Town Line Methodist Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Fullarton Evangelical Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fullarton Evangelical Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Fullarton Evangelical Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<3> to the east of Sebringville.
- The Fullarton Evangelical Cemetery has also been known as:
- Fullarton Evangelical United Cemetery
- Fullarton United Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2339077 <2>
- McTavish Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Conroy. See our List of 1890's Communities around Conroy.
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 Conroy:
- 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 north past Conroy and then turned west". While Conroy could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Conroy 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Conroy 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 Conroy. |
| <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 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Conroy) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Conroy. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.2933, Longitude: -81.0486 |