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Introduction ...

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

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 Victoria Mills: Victoria Mls. (or less commonly used: Victoria Mlls.)

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 Victoria Mills ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Victoria Mills.

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.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Victoria Mills - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Victoria Mills covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Hill Family Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Hartford Baptist Church Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Church of Jesus Christ Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Church of Jesus Christ Cemetery
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Church of Jesus Christ Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • The Church of Jesus Christ Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Church of Christ Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2386467 <2>
  • Stump Hall Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stump Hall Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Stump Hall Cemetery is located 8 miles [12.9 km]<4> to the southeast of Brantford.
    • The Stump Hall Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Plymouth Brethren Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2364685 <2>
  • St. Barnabas Anglican Church Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Barnabas Anglican Church Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Barnabas Anglican Church Cemetery is located 8 miles [12.9 km]<4> to the south of Brantford.
    • The St. Barnabas Anglican Church Cemetery has also been known as:
    • St. Barnabas Anglican Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2263496 <2>
  • Old Anglican Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Medina Baptist Church Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Medina Baptist Church Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Medina Baptist Church Cemetery is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<4> to the southwest of Ohsweken.
    • The Medina Baptist Church Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Medina Baptist Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2396093 <2>
  • Boston Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Boston Cemetery
    • The Boston Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Boston Baptist Church Cemetery
    • United Empire Loyalist Burial Ground
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2305897 <2>
  • Bethany Mission Church Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bethany Mission Church Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Bethany Mission Church Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<4> to the northeast of Sixty Nine (69) Corners.
    • The Bethany Mission Church Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Bethany Baptist Cemetery
    • Bethany Baptist Mission Cemetery
    • Bethany Mission Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2396187 <2>
  • New Credit Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the New Credit Cemetery
    • The New Credit Cemetery has also been known as:
    • First Line Cemetery
    • First Line / New Credit Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2401035 <2>
  • Grand River United Church Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grand River United Church Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Grand River United Church Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<4> to the west of Ohsweken.
    • The Grand River United Church Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Grand Rivver Cemetery
    • Grand River Mission Methodist Cemetery
    • Grand River Mission United Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2263510 <2>
  • Wilsonville Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (357 more) ...

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

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 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 Victoria Mills:

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 Victoria Mills and then turned east". While Victoria Mills could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Victoria Mills 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 Victoria Mills 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 Victoria Mills.
<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>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Victoria Mills) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Victoria Mills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.0189, Longitude: -80.2056