Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Thomstown during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Thomstown 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 Thomstown (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 Thomstown. 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 Thomstown ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Thomstown.
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 Thomstown covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Thomstown, with the one closest to Thomstown listed first.
- Bailieboro Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Centreville Presbyterian Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Canton Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Gardiner's United Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gardiner's United Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Gardiner's United Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<3> to the south of Millbrook.
- The Gardiner's United Cemetery has also been known as:
- Gardiner's United Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2513081 <2>
- Grace Presbyterian Church Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grace Presbyterian Church Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Grace Presbyterian Church Cemetery is located outside and to the north of Millbrook.
- The Grace Presbyterian Church Cemetery has also been known as:
- Grace Presbyterian Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2551050 <2>
- Welcome Church Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Welcome United Church Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Port Hope Union Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Port Hope Union Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Port Hope Union Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the west of Port Hope.
- The Port Hope Union Cemetery has also been known as:
- Union Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1959939 <2>
- St. John's Anglican Church Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- St. Mary's RC Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Mary's RC Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Mary's RC Cemetery is located outside and to the west of Port Hope.
- The St. Mary's RC Cemetery has also been known as:
- St. Mary's Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2335436 <2>
- St. John's Anglican Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Camborne United Church Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Continue List (71 more) ...
- Cold Springs Congregational Church Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Lakeview Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Pontypool Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Thomstown. See our List of 1890's Communities around Thomstown.
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 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 Thomstown:
- 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 Thomstown and then turned east". While Thomstown could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Thomstown 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 Thomstown 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 Thomstown. |
| <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' (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- Thomstown) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Thomstown. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.0803, Longitude: -78.4039 |