Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Rows Corners during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Rows Corners 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 Rows Corners (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 Rows Corners. 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 Rows Corners ...
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.
- A typical abbreviation for Rows Corners: Rows Cors.
- While the name of this community is Rows Corners, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<2>. So Rows Corners may originally have been Row's Corners.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Rows Corners might be written as Row Corners.
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 Rows Corners ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rows Corners.
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 Rows Corners covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Rows Corners, with the one closest to Rows Corners listed first.
- Howard Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Roselawn Memorial Gardens
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Manhard Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- St. Francis Xavier Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Oakland Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Oakland Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Oakland Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Brockville.
- The Oakland Cemetery has also been known as:
- Oakland Anglican and Protestant Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1791202 <3>
- Old St. Peters Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Old Protestant Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Greenwood Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Greenwood Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Greenwood Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Sunnyside Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sunnyside Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sunnyside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Pine Hill Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pine Hill Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pine Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Bissell's Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Lyn Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lyn Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Lyn Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Lyn.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2237356 <3>
- Continue List (132 more) ...
- Blue Church Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Glen Buell Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Maynard Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Rows Corners. See our List of 1890's Communities around Rows Corners.
Newspapers Published in Rows Corners ...
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 46 newspapers that have been published in the area around Rows Corners.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Rows Corners, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Rows Corners.
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 Rows Corners:
- 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 Rows Corners and then turned east". While Rows Corners could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Rows Corners 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Rows Corners 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 Rows Corners. |
| <2> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <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> | 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. |
| <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 drawn from Point A (ie- Rows Corners) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rows Corners. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.6331, Longitude: -75.6925 |