Our Genealogy Helper for Drury ...
Although we found mention of Drury during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Drury 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 Drury (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 Drury. 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 like to start 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 Drury:
- Websites specific to Ontario
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Ontario
- Of Special Interest ...
- The GenDisasters website specializes in newspaper articles about tragedies and disasters. While it makes interesting reading all by itself, it should be of special interest to genealogists and family historians looking for people who were either affected by or directly involved in such tragedies.
- At this time (Dec 2022), GenDisasters website is currently offline due to a hacker attack. Hopefully they will be back soon.
- Stories from Ontario
Cemeteries Near Drury ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Drury.
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 Drury covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
- Waters Twp. Cemetery
- St. Stanislaus RC Cemetery
- St. Joseph's Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Joseph's Cemetery
- St. Joseph's Cemetery lies 20 miles [32.2 km]<2> to the northeast of Drury.
- St. Joseph's Cemetery has also been known as:
- Chelmsford RC Cemetery
- St. Joseph Cemetery
- Jump to Google Maps centered on St. Joseph's Cemetery
- Find-A-Grave: FAG ID #2316311<3>
- Long Lake Finnish Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Long Lake Finnish Cemetery
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Long Lake Finnish Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Long Lake Finnish Cemetery lies 23 miles [37 km]<2> to the east of Drury.
- Jump to Google Maps centered on Long Lake Finnish Cemetery
- McFarlane Cemetery
- Eyre Cemetery
- Sudbury Anglican Cemetery
- Park Lawn Cemetery
- All Saints Cemetery
- LaSalle RC Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the LaSalle RC Cemetery
- LaSalle RC Cemetery lies 26 miles [41.8 km]<2> to the east of Drury.
- LaSalle RC Cemetery has also been known as:
- LaSalle Boulevard Cemetery
- LaSalle Cemetery
- Sudbury Catholic Cemetery
- Jump to Google Maps centered on LaSalle RC Cemetery
- Find-A-Grave: FAG ID #1971324<3>
- Civic Memorial Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Civic Memorial Cemetery
- Civic Memorial Cemetery lies 28 miles [45.1 km]<2> to the east of Drury.
- Civic Memorial Cemetery has also been known as:
- Civic Memorial / Minnow Lake Cemetery
- Sudbury Municipal Cemetery
- Jump to Google Maps centered on Civic Memorial Cemetery
- Find-A-Grave: FAG ID #2176340<3>
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Drury. See our List of 1890's Communities around Drury.
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 Drury and then turned east". While Drury could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Drury 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Drury 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 Drury. |
| <2> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Drury) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Drury. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 46.3808, Longitude: -81.5056 |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |