Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Quinn during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Quinn 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 Quinn (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 Quinn. 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 Quinn ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Quinn.
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 Quinn covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Quinn, with the one closest to Quinn listed first.
- Maple Leaf Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- St. Francis Xavier Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Renwick Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Stewart Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stewart Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Stewart Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the west of Merlin.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2387634 <2>
- McDowell Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Our Lady of Lourdes Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Victoria / Baddertown Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Erie Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Erie Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Erie Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the east of Wheatley.
- The Erie Cemetery has also been known as:
- Wheatley Erie Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2227687 <2>
- Merlin Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Merlin Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Merlin Cemetery is located outside and to the northeast of Merlin.
- The Merlin Cemetery has also been known as:
- Merlin / Doyle Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2227791 <2>
- Fairview Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- North Buxton Community Church / British Methodist Episcopal Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Annunciation RC / L'Annonciation Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (70 more) ...
- St. Thomas Anglican Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Dolsen Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Immaculate Conception Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Immaculate Conception Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Immaculate Conception Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Pain Court.
- The Immaculate Conception Cemetery has also been known as:
- Immaculate Conception / Pain Court RC Cemetery
- Immaculate Conception RC Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2226018 <2>
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Quinn. See our List of 1890's Communities around Quinn.
Newspapers Published in Quinn ...
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 1 newspapers that have been published in the area around Quinn.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Quinn, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Quinn.
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 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 Quinn:
- 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 Quinn and then turned east". While Quinn could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Quinn 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 Quinn 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 Quinn. |
| <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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Quinn) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Quinn. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.2211, Longitude: -82.3858 |