Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Gads Hill Station during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Gads Hill Station 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 Gads Hill Station (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 Gads Hill Station. 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 Gads Hill Station ...
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 Gads Hill Station: Gads Hill Sta. (in Canada, 'Stn.' is the more common abbreviation.)
- While the name of this community is Gads Hill Station, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<2>. So Gads Hill Station may originally have been Gad's Hill Station.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Gads Hill Station might be written as Gad Hill Station.
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.
Cemeteries Near Gads Hill Station ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Gads Hill Station.
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 Gads Hill Station covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Gads Hill Station, with the one closest to Gads Hill Station listed first.
- Zion Evangelical Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Zion Evangelical Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Zion Evangelical Cemetery is located in Rostock.
- The Zion Evangelical Cemetery has also been known as:
- Rostock Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2161230 <3>
- St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Second St. John's Lutheran Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- St. Patrick's Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- First St. John's Lutheran Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- St. John's Lutheran Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Poole West Amish Mennonite Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Greenwood Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Greenwood Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Greenwood Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the east of Milverton.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2156637 <3>
- Milverton Methodist Church Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- St. Paul's United Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Redeemer Lutheran Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Sebringville Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sebringville Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Sebringville Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southeast of Sebringville.
- The Sebringville Cemetery has also been known as:
- Emmanuel United Church Cemetery
- Sebringville / Emmanuel United Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2203218 <3>
- Continue List (253 more) ...
- St. Joseph's Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Poole Mennonite Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Morningview Amish Mennonite Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Morningview Amish Mennonite Cemetery
- The Morningview Amish Mennonite Cemetery has also been known as:
- Edgecombe Old Order Mennonite Cemetery
- Morningview Amish Mennonite / Edgecombe Old Order Mennonite Cemetery
- Morningview Mennonite Church Cemetery
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Gads Hill Station. See our List of 1890's Communities around Gads Hill Station.
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 Gads Hill Station:
- 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 Gads Hill Station and then turned west". While Gads Hill Station could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Gads Hill Station 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 Gads Hill Station 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 Gads Hill Station. |
| <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> | 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. |