Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

Although we found mention of Spring Arbour during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Spring Arbour 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 Spring Arbour (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 Spring Arbour. 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 Spring Arbour ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Spring Arbour.

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 Spring Arbour covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Spring Arbour, with the one closest to Spring Arbour listed first.

Walsingham Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Walsingham Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
Cultus Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cultus Cemetery
- The Cultus Cemetery has also been known as:
- Cultus / Laycock's Settlement Cemetery
- Laycock's Settlement Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2309650 <2>
Knowles / Carholme Knowles Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Knowles / Carholme Knowles Cemetery
Bayview Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bayview Cemetery
Newkirk Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Newkirk Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2358779 <2>
Clear Creek / Berger Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Clear Creek / Berger Cemetery
Langton Baptist Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Langton Baptist Cemetery
Johnson Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Johnson Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2319463 <2>
Silver Hill Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Silver Hill Cemetery
Hemlock - Houghton Baptist Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hemlock - Houghton Baptist Cemetery
- The Hemlock - Houghton Baptist Cemetery has also been known as:
- Hemlock Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2532365 <2>
Greek Orthodox Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Greek Orthodox Cemetery
Glen Meyer Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Glen Meyer Cemetery
- The Glen Meyer Cemetery has also been known as:
- Glen Meyer Baptist Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2340240 <2>
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- Wyecombe United Church Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Wyecombe United Church Cemetery
  - To give a relative sense of its location, the Wyecombe United Church Cemetery is located outside and to the southeast of Wyecombe.
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2504074 <2>
- Fairview Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fairview Cemetery
- Evergreen Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Evergreen Cemetery
  - The Evergreen Cemetery has also been known as:
  - Lynedoch Cemetery
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2265079 <2>

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Spring Arbour. See our List of 1890's Communities around Spring Arbour.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Spring Arbour:

Websites specific to Ontario
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search

Cemetery Information and Directories for Ontario
- Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Ontario
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of Ontario
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Ontario
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of 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 Spring Arbour and then turned east". While Spring Arbour could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Spring Arbour 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 Spring Arbour 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 Spring Arbour.

<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.