Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of South Walkerville during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how South Walkerville 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 South Walkerville (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 South Walkerville. 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 South Walkerville ...
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 South Walkerville: S. Walkerville
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 South Walkerville ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of South Walkerville.
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 South Walkerville covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from South Walkerville, with the one closest to South Walkerville listed first.
- Our Lady Of The Lake Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- St. Alphonsus RC Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Windsor Grove Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Windsor Memorial Gardens
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Windsor Memorial Gardens
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Windsor Memorial Gardens is a large cemetery that is located in Windsor.
- The Windsor Memorial Gardens has also been known as:
- Windsor Memorial Gardens Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2256827 <2>
- Mt. Elliott Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Elliott Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mt. Elliott Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Elmwood Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Fairbairn Union Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Assumption Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Heavenly Rest Catholic Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Heavenly Rest Catholic Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Heavenly Rest Catholic Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<4> to the west of LaSalle.
- The Heavenly Rest Catholic Cemetery has also been known as:
- Heavenly Rest Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1980365 <2>
- Victoria Memorial Gardens
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Green Lawn Memorial Gardens
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Green Lawn Memorial Gardens
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Green Lawn Memorial Gardens is a large cemetery that is located in Oldcastle.
- The Green Lawn Memorial Gardens has also been known as:
- Greenlawn Memorial Gardens
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2169770 <2>
- Trinity Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Trinity Cemetery
- The Trinity Cemetery has also been known as:
- German Lutheran Cemetery
- Lutheran Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #967 <2>
- Continue List (272 more) ...
- St. Stephen's Anglican Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Banwell Road Block Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Banwell Road Block Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Banwell Road Block Cemetery is located outside and to the south of Tecumseh.
- The Banwell Road Block Cemetery has also been known as:
- Little River Cemetery
- Smith / Black Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2563503 <2>
- Ste. Anne Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ste. Anne Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Ste. Anne Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Tecumseh.
- The Ste. Anne Cemetery has also been known as:
- St. Anne's Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2242467 <2>
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around South Walkerville. See our List of 1890's Communities around South Walkerville.
Newspapers Published in South Walkerville ...
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 574 newspapers that have been published in the area around South Walkerville.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of South Walkerville, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for South Walkerville.
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 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 South Walkerville:
- 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 South Walkerville and then turned east". While South Walkerville could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added South Walkerville 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 South Walkerville 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 South Walkerville. |
| <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> | 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. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- South Walkerville) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in South Walkerville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.2961, Longitude: -83.0019 |