Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Rock Mills during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Rock Mills 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 Rock Mills (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 Rock Mills. 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 Rock Mills ...
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 Rock Mills: Rock Mls. (or less commonly used: Rock Mlls.)
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 Rock Mills ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rock Mills.
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 Rock Mills covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Rock Mills, with the one closest to Rock Mills listed first.
- Salem Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Salem Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Salem Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Eugenia.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2381104 <2>
- Flesherton Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Inistuoge Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Maxwell Town Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Maxwell Methodist Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Old Durham Road Pioneer Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Durham Road Pioneer Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Old Durham Road Pioneer Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<3> to the west of Priceville.
- The Old Durham Road Pioneer Cemetery has also been known as:
- Priceville Black Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1966298 <2>
- Burn's Presbyterian Church / Feversham Presbyterian Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Evergreen Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Markdale Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Bethel United Church Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Maxwell Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- New England Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the New England Cemetery
- The New England Cemetery has also been known as:
- New England United Church Cemetery
- Continue List (133 more) ...
- Buckingham United Church Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- McNeil Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Maple Grove Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Maple Grove Cemetery
- The Maple Grove Cemetery has also been known as:
- Dundalk Cemetery
- Dundalk / Maple Grove Cemetery
- Dundalk Maplegrove Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2225956 <2>
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Rock Mills. See our List of 1890's Communities around Rock Mills.
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 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 Rock Mills:
- 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 north past Rock Mills and then turned west". While Rock Mills could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Rock Mills 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 Rock Mills 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 Rock Mills. |
| <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 from Point A (ie- Rock Mills) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rock Mills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.2894, Longitude: -80.4953 |