Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

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 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 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.

Newspapers Published in 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 28 newspapers that have been published in the area around Walkerville.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Walkerville, there are papers which were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Walkerville.

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 Walkerville:

• 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 Walkerville ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of 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 Walkerville covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

• Our Lady Of The Lake Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Our Lady Of The Lake Cemetery
• Windsor Grove Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Windsor Grove Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2147807 <2>
• St. Alphonsus RC Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • The St. Alphonsus RC Cemetery has also been known as:
  • St. Alphonsus Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Alphonsus RC Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1983281 <2>
• Mt. Elliott Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • 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.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Elliott Cemetery
• Elmwood Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Elmwood Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #447 <2>
• Assumption Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • The Assumption Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Assumption RC Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Assumption Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2171457 <2>
• Windsor Memorial Gardens
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • 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 our Gazetteer entry for the Windsor Memorial Gardens
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2256827 <2>
• Trinity Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • The Trinity Cemetery has also been known as:
  • German Lutheran Cemetery
  • Lutheran Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Trinity Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #967 <2>
• Fairbairn Union Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fairbairn Union Cemetery
• B'nai-David Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the B'nai-David Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • The B'nai-David Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Bnai-David Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the B'nai-David Cemetery
• Banwell Road Block Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • 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 our Gazetteer entry for the Banwell Road Block Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2563503 <2>
• Ste. Anne Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • 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 our Gazetteer entry for the Ste. Anne Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2242467 <2>
• Continue List   (274 more) ...
  • Tecumseh Historical Museum Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tecumseh Historical Museum Cemetery
  • Beth Olem Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • The Beth Olem Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Betholem Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Beth Olem Cemetery
  • Gethsemane Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gethsemane Cemetery

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Walkerville. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Province of Ontario: https://www.ontario.ca/