Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of The Cottages during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how The Cottages 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 The Cottages (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 The Cottages. 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.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin with 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 The Cottages:
- Websites specific to Ontario
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Ontario
Cemeteries Near The Cottages ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of The Cottages.
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 The Cottages covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from The Cottages, with the one closest to The Cottages listed first.
- Fairview Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Johnson Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Newkirk Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Bayview Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Vittoria Baptist Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Walsh United Church Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Walsh United Church Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located less than 2 miles<3> to the northwest of Walsh.
- The Walsh United Church Cemetery has also been known as:
- Wesleyn Methodist Church Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Walsh United Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2298269 <2>
- Vittoria United Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Walsingham Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Greek Orthodox Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Vittoria Baptist Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Woodhouse United Church Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Woodhouse United Church Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<3> to the north of Simcoe.
- The Woodhouse United Church Cemetery has also been known as:
- Woodhouse United Church / Old Methodist Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Woodhouse United Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2200359 <2>
- Silver Hill Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (96 more) ...
- Knowles / Carholme Knowles Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Port Dover Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Doan's Hollow Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around The Cottages. See our List of 1890's Communities around The Cottages.
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 The Cottages and then turned east". While The Cottages could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added The Cottages 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 The Cottages 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 The Cottages. |
<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- The Cottages) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in The Cottages. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.5958, Longitude: -80.3131 |