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 Ridgetown (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 Ridgetown. 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.
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 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 Ridgetown:
- Websites specific to Ontario
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Ontario
Cemeteries Near Ridgetown ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Ridgetown.
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 Ridgetown covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Ridgetown, with the one closest to Ridgetown listed first.
- Campbell Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Greenwood Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- St. Michael's Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Morpeth Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- McMillan Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Gosnell United Church Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- The Gosnell United Church Cemetery has also been known as:
- Century Cemetery
- Gosnell Farm Cemetery
- Gosnell United Church / Highgate Cemetery
- Highgate Cemetery
- Highgate United Church Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gosnell United Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2160482 <1>
- Newcomb Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Ogletree Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Ogletree Cemetery is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<2> to the northwest of Thamesville.
- The Ogletree Cemetery has also been known as:
- Oglitree Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ogletree Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2342726 <1>
- Trinity Anglican Church Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Clark Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Mill's Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Mill's Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mill's Cemetery
- Botany Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- The Botany Cemetery has also been known as:
- Botany Methodist Cemetery
- Botany United Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Botany Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1997888 <1>
- Continue List (74 more) ...
- Evergreen Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Duart Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Duart Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the north of Duart.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Duart Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2335930 <1>
- Everitt Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Ridgetown. See our List of 1890's Communities around Ridgetown.
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Ridgetown. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Province of Ontario: https://www.ontario.ca/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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- Ridgetown) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ridgetown. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.4378, Longitude: -81.8851 |
| <3> | 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. |