Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Gregory during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Gregory 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 Gregory (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 Gregory. 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 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 Gregory:
- Websites specific to Ontario
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Ontario
Cemeteries Near Gregory ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Gregory.
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 Gregory covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Gregory, with the one closest to Gregory listed first.
- Glen Orchard Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Footes Bay Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- The Footes Bay Cemetery has also been known as:
- Footes Bay United Church Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Footes Bay Cemetery
- Mactier Union Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Union Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Rosseau & Humphrey Union Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- St. Mark's Anglican Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Torrance Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Torrance Cemetery is located outside and to the north of Torrance.
- The Torrance Cemetery has also been known as:
- Torrance Union Cemetery
- Whitting Family Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Torrance Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2400834 <2>
- Moores Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Moores Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Moores Cemetery is located between<4> the communities of Beatrice and Bracebridge. The cemetery lies 3 miles [4.8 km]<5> to the southeast of Beatrice.
- The Moores Cemetery has also been known as:
- Moore Pioneer Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Moores Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2388820 <2>
- Bracebridge United Church Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Langford Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Christie Memorial Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- George Kirk Memorial Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the George Kirk Memorial Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
- To give a relative sense of its location, the George Kirk Memorial Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<5> to the south of Bracebridge.
- The George Kirk Memorial Cemetery has also been known as:
- Kirk Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the George Kirk Memorial Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2337292 <2>
- Continue List (26 more) ...
- Foley Memorial Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Lakeview Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Lakeview St. Paul's Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Gregory. See our List of 1890's Communities around Gregory.
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 Gregory and then turned east". While Gregory could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Gregory 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 Gregory 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 Gregory. |
| <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. |
| <4> | To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Beatrice and Bracebridge. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location. |
| <5> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Gregory) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Gregory. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.1375, Longitude: -79.6547 |