Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

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

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.

While the name of this community is Straders Hill, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<2>. So Straders Hill may originally have been Strader's Hill.

Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Straders Hill might be written as Strader Hill.

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.

Newspapers Published in Straders Hill ...

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 45 newspapers that have been published in the area around Straders Hill.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Straders Hill, there are papers which were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Straders Hill.

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 Straders Hill:

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

Cemeteries Near Straders Hill ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Straders Hill.

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 Straders Hill covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

Williamsburg Union Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Williamsburg Union Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northwest of Williamsburg.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Williamsburg Union Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2431128 <4>
Spruce Haven Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Spruce Haven Cemetery
Bouck's Hill Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bouck's Hill Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2477207 <4>
South Dixon's Corners Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the South Dixon's Corners Cemetery
Dixons Corners South / Wesleyan Methodist Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dixons Corners South / Wesleyan Methodist Cemetery
Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Morrisburg.
- The Mt. Pleasant Cemetery has also been known as:
- Mariatown Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2333685 <4>
Maple Ridge Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Maple Ridge Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2226436 <4>
Brown's Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Brown's Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Winchester.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Brown's Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2431075 <4>
South Mountain Union Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- The South Mountain Union Cemetery has also been known as:
- Union Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the South Mountain Union Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2353787 <4>
Brookside Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Brookside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Brookside Cemetery
St. Marys Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Marys Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Marys Cemetery
Grantley United Church Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- The Grantley United Church Cemetery has also been known as:
- Grantley Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grantley United Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2507413 <4>
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- Iroquois United Church Cemetery
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  - The Iroquois United Church Cemetery has also been known as:
  - Iroquois Point Cemetery
  - Iroquois Presbyterian Cemetery
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Iroquois United Church Cemetery
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2630505 <4>
- Scotch Cemetery
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Scotch Cemetery
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #66256 <4>
- Lawrence Cemetery
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  - Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lawrence Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lawrence Cemetery

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

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 Straders Hill and then turned east". While Straders Hill could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Straders Hill 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 Straders Hill 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 Straders Hill.
<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>	Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Straders Hill) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Straders Hill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.9797, Longitude: -75.2887
<4>	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.
<5>	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.