Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

Although we found mention of Davidsons Beach during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Davidsons Beach 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 Davidsons Beach (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 Davidsons Beach. 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 Davidsons Beach ...

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 Davidsons Beach: Davidsons Bch.

While the name of this community is Davidsons Beach, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<2>. So Davidsons Beach may originally have been Davidson's Beach.

Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Davidsons Beach might be written as Davidson Beach.

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.

Newspapers Published in Davidsons Beach ...

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 5 newspapers that have been published in the area around Davidsons Beach.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Davidsons Beach, 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 Davidsons Beach.

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 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 Davidsons Beach:

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 Davidsons Beach ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Davidsons Beach.

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

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

Latimer Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Latimer Cemetery
Glenhaven Memorial Garden
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Glenhaven Memorial Garden
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2218438 <4>
Sydenham Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sydenham Cemetery
Buck Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Buck Cemetery
Beth Israel Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Beth Israel Cemetery
Cataraqui Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- The Cataraqui Cemetery has also been known as:
- Cataraqio Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cataraqui Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #639423 <4>
Wilmer Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Wilmer Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2338382 <4>
Harrowsmith Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Harrowsmith Cemetery
Cataraqui United Church Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cataraqui United Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2202212 <4>
Christ Church Anglican Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Christ Church Anglican Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2380419 <4>
Wilton Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- The Wilton Cemetery has also been known as:
- Wilton United Church Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Wilton Cemetery
St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery
Continue List (96 more) ...
- St. Mary's RC Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Mary's RC Cemetery
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1704245 <4>
- St. Paul's Church Yard Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Paul's Church Yard Cemetery
- St. James Anglican Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. James Anglican Cemetery

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

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 Davidsons Beach and then turned west". While Davidsons Beach could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Davidsons Beach 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 Davidsons Beach 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 Davidsons Beach.
<2>	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).
<3>	Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Davidsons Beach) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Davidsons Beach. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.3647, Longitude: -76.5492
<4>	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.