Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

Although we found mention of McDiarmid's Shore during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how McDiarmid's Shore 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 McDiarmid's Shore (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 McDiarmid's Shore. 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 McDiarmid's Shore ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for McDiarmid's Shore: McDiarmids Shr.

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 McDiarmid's Shore ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of McDiarmid's Shore.

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 McDiarmid's Shore covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from McDiarmid's Shore, with the one closest to McDiarmid's Shore listed first.

St. James Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. James Cemetery
- The St. James Cemetery has also been known as:
- St. James Anglican Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2333954 <2>
Sinclair Pioneer Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sinclair Pioneer Cemetery
- The Sinclair Pioneer Cemetery has also been known as:
- Sinclair Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2465240 <2>
Wesleyan Methodist Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Wesleyan Methodist Cemetery
- The Wesleyan Methodist Cemetery has also been known as:
- Wesleyan Methodist Burial Ground
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2509918 <2>
Methodist Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Methodist Cemetery
Auld Kirk Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Auld Kirk Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2220142 <2>
Robertson / Kellough Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Robertson / Kellough Cemetery
Christ Church Anglican Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Christ Church Anglican Cemetery
Bellamy Mills Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bellamy Mills Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Bellamy Mills Cemetery is located outside and to the southeast of Clayton.
Clayton United Church Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Clayton United Church Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Clayton United Church Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Clayton.
- The Clayton United Church Cemetery has also been known as:
- Clayton Cemetery
- Guthrie United Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2265997 <2>
Munster Union Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Munster Union Cemetery
Sacred Heart RC Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sacred Heart RC Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2289156 <2>
Zion Memorial Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Zion Memorial Cemetery
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- Hopetown Cemetery
  (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hopetown Cemetery
  - To give a relative sense of its location, the Hopetown Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northwest of Hopetown.
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2320454 <2>
- Indian Hill Cemetery
  (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Indian Hill Cemetery
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2377170 <2>
- Elmwood Cemetery
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Elmwood Cemetery
  - To give a relative sense of its location, the Elmwood Cemetery is located outside and to the northwest of Perth.
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2167891 <2>

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

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 McDiarmid's Shore:

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

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 McDiarmid's Shore and then turned west". While McDiarmid's Shore could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added McDiarmid's Shore 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 McDiarmid's Shore 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 McDiarmid's Shore.

<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.