Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

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 Herrons Corners (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 Herrons Corners. 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 Herrons Corners ...

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 Herrons Corners: Herrons Cors.

• While the name of this community is Herrons Corners, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Herrons Corners may originally have been Herron's Corners.
  
  Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Herrons Corners might be written as Herron Corners.

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.

Newspapers Published in Herrons Corners ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 47 newspapers that have been published in the area around Herrons Corners.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Herrons Corners, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Herrons Corners.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Herrons Corners:

• Websites specific to Ontario
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Ontario
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Ontario
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Ontario
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Ontario
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Ontario

Cemeteries Near Herrons Corners ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Herrons Corners.

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 Herrons Corners covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Herrons Corners, with the one closest to Herrons Corners listed first.

• Bissell's Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bissell's Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2291908 <3>
• St. Peters Anglican Church Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • The St. Peters Anglican Church Cemetery has also been known as:
  • North Augusta Anglican Cemetery
  • St. Peter's Anglican / North Augusta Anglican Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Peters Anglican Church Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2316698 <3>
• Manhard Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Manhard Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2223739 <3>
• Roselawn Memorial Gardens
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Roselawn Memorial Gardens
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2165213 <3>
• Maynard Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Maynard Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2161791 <3>
• Blue Church Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Blue Church Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2317072 <3>
• St. Mark's RC Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Mark's RC Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2273319 <3>
• Glen Buell Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Glen Buell Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2314403 <3>
• Howard Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Howard Cemetery
• St. Francis Xavier Cemetery
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Francis Xavier Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2175090 <3>
• Oakland Cemetery
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Oakland Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Brockville.
  • The Oakland Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Oakland Anglican and Protestant Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Oakland Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1791202 <3>
• Greenwood Cemetery
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Greenwood Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Greenwood Cemetery
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  • Pine Hill Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pine Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pine Hill Cemetery
  • Sunnyside Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sunnyside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sunnyside Cemetery
  • Ford Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ford Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ford Cemetery

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Herrons Corners. See our List of 1890's Communities around Herrons Corners.

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Herrons Corners. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Province of Ontario: https://www.ontario.ca/