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 McArthurs Mills (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 McArthurs Mills. 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 McArthurs Mills ...
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.
Another variation: McArthur Mills.
- A typical abbreviation for McArthurs Mills: McArthurs Mls. (or less commonly used: McArthurs Mlls.)
- While the name of this community is McArthurs Mills, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So McArthurs Mills may originally have been McArthur's Mills.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case McArthurs Mills might be written as McArthur Mills.
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.
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 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 McArthurs Mills:
- Websites specific to Ontario
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Ontario
Cemeteries Near McArthurs Mills ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of McArthurs Mills.
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 McArthurs Mills covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from McArthurs Mills, with the one closest to McArthurs Mills listed first.
- Carlow United Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Grace United Church Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Grace United Church Cemetery is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<3> to the southwest of L'Amable.
- The Grace United Church Cemetery has also been known as:
- Detlor United Church Cemetery
- Grace United Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grace United Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2368697 <2>
- Lakeview Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- St. George Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Our Lady of Mercy Parish Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Hillcrest Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Christ Lutheran Church Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Emmanuel United Church Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Greenbush Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Greenbush Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Greenbush Cemetery
- Grace Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Grace Cemetery is located outside and to the northwest of Maynooth.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grace Cemetery
- St. Ignatius RC Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the St. Ignatius RC Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- The St. Ignatius RC Cemetery has also been known as:
- St. Ignatius Martyr Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Ignatius RC Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2249893 <2>
- Continue List (12 more) ...
- Trinity Anglican Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Old St. Ola United Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Old St. Ola United Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old St. Ola United Cemetery
- Gilmour Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around McArthurs Mills. See our List of 1890's Communities around McArthurs Mills.
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for McArthurs Mills. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Province of Ontario: https://www.ontario.ca/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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). |
| <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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- McArthurs Mills) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in McArthurs Mills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.1258, Longitude: -77.5786 |
| <4> | 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. |