Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Davis Lock during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Davis Lock 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 Davis Lock (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 Davis Lock. 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 Davis Lock ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Davis Lock.
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 Davis Lock covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Davis Lock, with the one closest to Davis Lock listed first.
- Halladay Burial Place
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Opinicon Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Morton Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Hutchings Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Royal Sappers & Miners Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- St. Mary's Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Lillies Baptist Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Forfar Methodist Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Robertson Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Robertson Cemetery
- The Robertson Cemetery has also been known as:
- Robertson / Delta United Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2316523 <2>
- Knox Presbyterian Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Knox Presbyterian Cemetery
- The Knox Presbyterian Cemetery has also been known as:
- Knox Presbyterian Church Cemetery
- Westport Presbyterian Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2333479 <2>
- Portland United Church Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Portland United Church Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Portland United Church Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Portland.
- The Portland United Church Cemetery has also been known as:
- United Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2276322 <2>
- Emmanuel Anglican Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (105 more) ...
- Westport United Church Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Val Luven Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Val Luven Cemetery
- The Val Luven Cemetery has also been known as:
- Van Luven Burying Ground
- Pine Grove Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Davis Lock. See our List of 1890's Communities around Davis Lock.
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 helpful 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 Davis Lock:
- 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 south past Davis Lock and then turned west". While Davis Lock could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Davis Lock 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 Davis Lock 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 Davis Lock. |
| <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. |