Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Fairport during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Fairport 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 Fairport (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 Fairport. 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 Fairport ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Fairport.
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 Fairport covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Fairport, with the one closest to Fairport listed first.
- Ley Family / Potters Field Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Pickering Friends Burial Ground
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pickering Friends Burial Ground
- The Pickering Friends Burial Ground has also been known as:
- Friends Cemetery
- Society of Friends Cemetery
- Pickering United Church Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Elizabeth Street Pioneer Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Elizabeth Street Pioneer Cemetery
- The Elizabeth Street Pioneer Cemetery has also been known as:
- Old Methodist Cemetery
- Pickering Methodist Cemetery
- Erskine / Dunbarton United Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Erskine / Dunbarton United Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Erskine / Dunbarton United Cemetery is located in Pickering.
- The Erskine / Dunbarton United Cemetery has also been known as:
- Erskine Church Cemetery
- Duffin Meadows Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Brown Hicksite Friends Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Lamoreaux Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lamoreaux Cemetery
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Lamoreaux Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
- The Lamoreaux Cemetery has also been known as:
- L'Amoureau Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2354538 <2>
- Melville Church Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Hastings Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hastings Cemetery
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Hastings Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
- Whitevale Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Whitevale Cemetery
- The Whitevale Cemetery has also been known as:
- Whitevale United Cemetery
- Reesor Mennonite Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (171 more) ...
- Brougham Pioneer Christian Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- St. Margaret's in the Pines Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Margaret's in the Pines Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Margaret's in the Pines Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Scarborough.
- The St. Margaret's in the Pines Cemetery has also been known as:
- St. Margaret's Cemetery
- St. Margaret's Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2215523 <2>
- Green River Baptist Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Fairport. See our List of 1890's Communities around Fairport.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Fairport:
- 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 Fairport and then turned west". While Fairport could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Fairport 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 Fairport 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 Fairport. |
| <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> | 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. |