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 Hilton Beach (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 Hilton Beach. 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 Hilton Beach ...

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.

The community of Hilton Beach was originally named Marksville

• A typical abbreviation for Hilton Beach: Hilton Bch.

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.

A Few Details for Hilton Beach ...

While it's still very early in our research, we found that:

• The naming (or the toponymy) of Hilton Beach: Originally named Marksville after John Marks, who operated the first Post Office. The name was changed to Hilton Beach on June 1, 1921.
• Hilton Beach was settled circa 1860s.

Newspapers Published in Hilton Beach ...

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 18 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hilton Beach.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hilton Beach, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Hilton Beach.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Hilton Beach:

• 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 Hilton Beach ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hilton Beach.

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 Hilton Beach covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

• Grace United Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Grace United Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Hilton Beach.
  • The Grace United Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Hilton Beach United Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grace United Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2422853 <2>
• St. Boniface Catholic Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • The St. Boniface Catholic Cemetery has also been known as:
  • St. Boniface Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Boniface Catholic Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2422711 <2>
• Bruce Mines / Taylor Street Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bruce Mines / Taylor Street Cemetery
• St. Joseph Twp. Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Joseph Twp. Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2502997 <2>
• Desbarats Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Desbarats Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<1> to the southeast of Desbarats.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Desbarats Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2309736 <2>
• Bruce Mines Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • The Bruce Mines Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Bruce Mines / Trunk Road Cemetery
  • Trunk Road Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bruce Mines Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2459997 <2>
• Tenby Bay Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Tenby Bay Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tenby Bay Cemetery
• Cloudslee Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Cloudslee Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in the vicinity of Cloudslee
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cloudslee Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2330249 <2>
• Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
• Johnston Family Cemetery
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Johnston Family Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Johnston Family Cemetery
• Humphrey Maple Grove Cemetery
  (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • The Humphrey Maple Grove Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Humpheries Cemetery
  • Humphery Cemetery
  • Humphries Cemetery
  • Maple Grove Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Humphrey Maple Grove Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2459686 <2>
• Plummer Cemetery
  (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Plummer Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
  • The Plummer Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Finlaysons Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Plummer Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2403235 <2>
• Continue List   (56 more) ...
  • Presbyterian Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Presbyterian Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Presbyterian Cemetery
  • Laird Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Laird Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2364578 <2>
  • Anderson Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Anderson Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Anderson Cemetery

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Hilton Beach: www.hiltonbeach.com/

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