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 Wyndham 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 Wyndham 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.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Wyndham Hill is located in Berks County .
To see how the shape of Pennsylvania's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries .
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Berks County : Chester , Lancaster , Lebanon , Lehigh , Montgomery & Schuylkill .
Below are the counties that are near Wyndham Hill. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Wyndham Hill:
Berks County (The home county of Wyndham Hill)
The following are listed by their distance from Wyndham Hill, with the one closest to Wyndham Hill listed first.
Exeter Village (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Exeter Village is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Exeter Village Jacksonwald (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Jacksonwald is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jacksonwald Reiffton (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Reiffton is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reiffton Saint Lawrence (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Saint Lawrence is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Lawrence Population from the 2020 Census: 1,832 people
Limekiln (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Limekiln is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limekiln Brice Village (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Brice Village is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brice Village Stonersville (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Stonersville is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonersville Mount Penn (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Lorane (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Lorane is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lorane Griesemersville (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Griesemersville is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Griesemersville Oley (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Gibraltar (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Gibraltar is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibraltar Millmont (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Millmont is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millmont Bucks County
The following are listed by their distance from Wyndham Hill, with the one closest to Wyndham Hill listed first.
Steinsburg (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Steinsburg is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steinsburg Argus (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Argus is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argus Milford Square (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Milford Square is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milford Square Trumbauersville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Zionhill (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Zionhill is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zionhill Shelly (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Shelly is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shelly Hilltop (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Hilltop is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilltop Quakertown (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Rich Hill (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Rich Hill is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rich Hill Derstines (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Derstines is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Derstines Sellersville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Fairhill (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Fairhill is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairhill Fairhill has also been known as:
Schnabletown Snoveltown Passer (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Passer is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Passer Carbon County
Germans (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Germans is located in Carbon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Germans Chester County
The following are listed by their distance from Wyndham Hill, with the one closest to Wyndham Hill listed first.
Pottstown Landing (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Pottstown Landing is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pottstown Landing Elverson (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
South Pottstown (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
South Pottstown is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Pottstown Kenilworth (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Kenilworth is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenilworth Knauertown (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Knauertown is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knauertown Loag (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Loag is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loag Bucktown (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Bucktown is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bucktown Coventryville (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Coventryville is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coventryville Isabella (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Isabella is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isabella Fricks Lock (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Fricks Lock is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fricks Lock Nantmeal Village (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Nantmeal Village is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nantmeal Village Pughtown (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Pughtown is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pughtown Slonaker (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Slonaker is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slonaker Lancaster County
The following are listed by their distance from Wyndham Hill, with the one closest to Wyndham Hill listed first.
Churchtown (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
Red Run (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Red Run is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Run Terre Hill (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Blainsport (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Blainsport is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blainsport Beartown (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Beartown is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beartown Denver (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Reamstown (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Weaverland (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Weaverland is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weaverland Blue Ball (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
East Earl (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Stevens (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Hinkletown (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Hinkletown is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hinkletown Cocalico (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Cocalico is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cocalico Lebanon County
The following are listed by their distance from Wyndham Hill, with the one closest to Wyndham Hill listed first.
Newmanstown (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Sheridan (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Sheridan is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheridan Stricklerstown (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Stricklerstown is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stricklerstown Richland (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Schaefferstown (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Myerstown (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Johnstown (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Johnstown is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnstown Prescott (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Prescott is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prescott Avon Heights (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Avon Heights is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avon Heights Greble (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Greble is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greble Avon (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Avon is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avon Mount Zion (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Mount Zion is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Zion Cornwall (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Lehigh County
The following are listed by their distance from Wyndham Hill, with the one closest to Wyndham Hill listed first.
New Smithville (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
New Smithville is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Smithville Alburtis (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Hensingersville (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Hensingersville is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hensingersville Hynemansville (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Hynemansville is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hynemansville Weisenberg (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Weisenberg is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weisenberg Ancient Oaks (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Ancient Oaks is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ancient Oaks Hosensack (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Hosensack is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hosensack Macungie (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Old Zionsville (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Old Zionsville is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Zionsville Powder Valley (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Powder Valley is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powder Valley Seipstown (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Seipstown is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seipstown Wallner ‑ Historic(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Wallner is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallner Stines Corner (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Stines Corner is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stines Corner Montgomery County
The following are listed by their distance from Wyndham Hill, with the one closest to Wyndham Hill listed first.
Bramcote (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
Bramcote is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bramcote Stowe (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
West Pottsgrove (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
West Pottsgrove is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Pottsgrove Halfway House (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Halfway House is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halfway House Gilbertsville (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Pottstown (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Congo (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Congo is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Congo Pottsgrove (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Pottsgrove is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pottsgrove New Hanover (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Sanatoga (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Fagleysville (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
Fagleysville is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fagleysville Pleasant Run (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
Pleasant Run is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Run Anise (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
Anise is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anise Northampton County
The following are listed by their distance from Wyndham Hill, with the one closest to Wyndham Hill listed first.
North Catasauqua (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
North Catasauqua is located in Northampton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Catasauqua Population from the 2020 Census: 2,825 people
Seidersville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Seidersville is located in Northampton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seidersville Star Village (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Star Village is located in Northampton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Star Village Leithsville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Leithsville is located in Northampton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leithsville Lockport (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Lockport is located in Northampton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lockport Northampton (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Schuylkill County
The following are listed by their distance from Wyndham Hill, with the one closest to Wyndham Hill listed first.
Port Clinton (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Auburn (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Deer Lake (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Deer Lake is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer Lake Population from the 2020 Census: 645 people
Jefferson (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Jefferson is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson Rauschs (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Rauschs is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rauschs Aucheys (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Aucheys is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aucheys Rene Mont (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Rene Mont is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rene Mont Lake Wynonah (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Lake Wynonah is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Wynonah Landingville (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Landingville is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Landingville Population from the 2020 Census: 149 people
Summit Station (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Summit Station is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit Station McKeansburg (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
McKeansburg is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McKeansburg New Ringgold (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Moyers (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Moyers is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moyers
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Wyndham Hill, see our County-by-County Page for Wyndham Hill .
Cemeteries Near Wyndham Hill ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Wyndham 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.
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 Wyndham Hill - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Wyndham Hill covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Wyndham Hill, with the one closest to Wyndham Hill listed first.
Schwarzwald Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Young - Kissling Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Aulenbach's Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Forest Hills Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Spies Zion Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spies Zion Cemetery To give a relative sense of its location, the Spies Zion Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<3> Laureldale . The Spies Zion Cemetery has also been known as:
Zions Spies Evangelical Reformed Church Cemetery Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1323059 <2>
Zion Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
German Lutheran Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
St. Peters Catholic Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Trinity Lutheran Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Salem Shalters Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
St. Johns Church Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Continue List (359 more) ...
DeTurk Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Hoch - DeTurk - Schenkel Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Union Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<4>
While we didn't find Wyndham Hill in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Wyndham Hill.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Wyndham Hill, with the one closest to Wyndham Hill listed first.
Jacksonwald (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Jacksonwald is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jacksonwald Stony Creek Mills (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Stony Creek Mills is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stony Creek Mills Stonersville (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Stonersville is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonersville Limekiln (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Limekiln is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limekiln Ridgewood (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Ridgewood is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgewood Neversink (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Neversink is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neversink Basket (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Basket is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Basket Millmont (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Millmont is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millmont Seyfert (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Seyfert is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seyfert Gibraltar (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Gibraltar is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibraltar Baumstown (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Baumstown is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baumstown Yellow House (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Yellow House is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellow House Continue List (19 more) ...
Griesemersville (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Griesemersville is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Griesemersville Oley (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Bernharts (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Bernharts is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bernharts
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Wyndham Hill. See our List of 1890's Communities around Wyndham Hill .
Newspapers Published in Wyndham 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 130 newspapers that have been published in the area around Wyndham Hill.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Wyndham Hill, there are papers which were published within 6 miles [9.7 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Wyndham Hill.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer 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 Wyndham Hill:
Websites specific to Pennsylvania Pages specific to Berks County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Bucks County Carbon County Chester County Lancaster County Lebanon County Lehigh County Montgomery County Northampton County Schuylkill County Cemetery Information and Directories for Pennsylvania Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Wyndham Hill. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
The official website for Berks County: https://www.berkspa.gov/
The official website for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: https://www.pa.gov/
Footnotes ...
<1> While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. 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 . 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- Wyndham Hill) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Wyndham Hill, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.