Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

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

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bown.

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

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

Bown Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bown Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2534145 <2>
La Patrie Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the La Patrie Cemetery
Grove Hill Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grove Hill Cemetery
Lakeside Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lakeside Cemetery
Dudswell Center Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dudswell Center Cemetery
Lothrop Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lothrop Cemetery
St. Clement De Bishopton Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Clement De Bishopton Cemetery
Westbury Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Westbury Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2371453 <2>
Notre Dame Du St. Rosaire
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Notre Dame Du St. Rosaire
- The Notre Dame Du St. Rosaire has also been known as:
- Cimetiere Catholique De Sawyerville
- Sawyerville Catholic Cemetery
Dell Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dell Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2257920 <2>
East Clifton Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the East Clifton Cemetery
Ascot Corner Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ascot Corner Cemetery
Continue List (13 more) ...
- Ascot Corner Pioneer Cemetery
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ascot Corner Pioneer Cemetery
- Martinville Cemetery
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Martinville Cemetery
- St. Malo Cemetery
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Malo Cemetery

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with 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 Bown:

Websites specific to Quebec
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search

Cemetery Information and Directories for Quebec
- Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Quebec
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of Quebec
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Quebec
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of Quebec

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Province of Quebec: https://www.quebec.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 south past Bown and then turned east". While Bown could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Bown 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 Miller Creek to see Pete ... Miller 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 Bown 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 Quebec community named Bown.

<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.