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 Pelham Union (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 Pelham Union. 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.

Newspapers Published in Pelham Union ...

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 37 newspapers that have been published in the area around Pelham Union.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Pelham Union, there are papers which were published within 18 miles [29 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Pelham Union.

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 Pelham Union:

• 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 Pelham Union ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pelham Union.

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 Pelham Union covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

• Lanes Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lanes Cemetery
• Lane's Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • The Lane's Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Lane Methodist Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lane's Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2175808 <2>
• North Pelham Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • The North Pelham Cemetery has also been known as:
  • North Pelham Presbyterian Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the North Pelham Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2416423 <2>
• Zion Weslyan Methodist Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Zion Weslyan Methodist Cemetery
• Rockway Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • The Rockway Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Rockway Presbyterian Church Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rockway Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2257882 <2>
• Brethren In Christ Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Brethren In Christ Cemetery
• Nicholas Smith Family Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Nicholas Smith Family Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Nicholas Smith Family Cemetery
• Oak Lawn Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • The Oak Lawn Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Jordan Station United Church Cemetery
  • Oaklawn Cemetery
  • Oaklawn / Jordan Station United Church Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Oak Lawn Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2386143 <2>
• Vineland Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Vineland Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the west of Vineland.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Vineland Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2204104 <2>
• Vineland Mennonite Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Vineland Mennonite Cemetery is located outside and to the west of Vineland.
  • The Vineland Mennonite Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Mennonite Burying Ground
  • Moyers Cemetery
  • Old Mennonite Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Vineland Mennonite Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2190517 <2>
• Hillside Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Hillside Cemetery is located in Pelham.
  • The Hillside Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Dawdy Burial Ground
  • Dawdy Cemetery
  • Dawdy's Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hillside Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2189998 <2>
• St. Anne's Church Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Anne's Church Cemetery
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  • Bismarck United Church Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bismarck United Church Cemetery
  • Hicksite Burial Ground
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Hicksite Burial Ground. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hicksite Burial Ground
  • Fonthill Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • The Fonthill Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Fonthill Municipal Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fonthill Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2284915 <2>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

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