Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Newark during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Newark 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 Newark (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 Newark. 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.
Cemeteries Near Newark ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Newark.
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 Newark covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Newark, with the one closest to Newark listed first.
- Ft. Niagara Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ft. Niagara Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ft. Niagara Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Grace United Church Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- St. Mark's Anglican Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Negro Burial Ground
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- St. Vincent De Paul RC Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- St. Bernards Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Bernards Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Bernards Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Ft. Niagara Post Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ft. Niagara Post Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ft. Niagara Post Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Butler's Burying Ground
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- St. Johns Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Johns Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Johns Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Niagara Lakeshore Municipal Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Field / Vrooman / Brown Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Field / Vrooman / Brown Cemetery
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Field / Vrooman / Brown Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- The Field / Vrooman / Brown Cemetery has also been known as:
- River Road Cemetery
- Stella Niagara Sisters of St. Francis Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stella Niagara Sisters of St. Francis Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Stella Niagara Sisters of St. Francis Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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- Towers Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Towers Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Towers Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Oakland Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Oakland Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Oakland Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Servos Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Servos Cemetery
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Servos Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Newark. See our List of 1890's Communities around Newark.
Newspapers Published in Newark ...
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 71 newspapers that have been published in the area around Newark.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Newark, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Newark.
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 professional and volunteer 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 Newark:
- Websites specific to Ontario
- Cemetery Information and Directories for 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 Newark and then turned east". While Newark could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Newark 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Newark 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 Newark. |
| <2> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <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. |
| <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 from Point A (ie- Newark) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Newark. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.2500, Longitude: -79.0667 |