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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 Chuckatuck Borough (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 Chuckatuck Borough. 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 Chuckatuck Borough ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Chuckatuck Borough.

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 Chuckatuck Borough - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Ames Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Wright Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Little Zion Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Triangle Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Meadowbrook Memorial Gardens
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • St. Lukes Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Christian Home Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Battery Park Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Greenlaw Memorial Park
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Greenlawn Memorial Park
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Olive Branch Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Greenlawn Memorial Park
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenlawn Memorial Park
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Greenlawn Memorial Park is a very large cemetery that is located 7 miles [11.3 km]<2> to the southeast of Newport News.
    • The Greenlawn Memorial Park has also been known as:
    • Greenlawn Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #50456 <1>
  • Continue List   (169 more) ...
    • Pleasant Shade Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Shade Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Pleasant Shade Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 7 miles [11.3 km]<2> to the southeast of Newport News.
      • The Pleasant Shade Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Holly Grove Cemetery
      • Mt. Zion Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #51692 <1>
    • Canaan Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Olive Branch Baptist Church Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)

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.<3>

While we didn't find Chuckatuck Borough in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Chuckatuck Borough.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Chuckatuck Borough, with the one closest to Chuckatuck Borough listed first.

  • Deanes
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Deanes is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deanes
  • Carrollton
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Chuckatuck
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Chuckatuck is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chuckatuck
  • Driver
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Driver is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Driver
  • Shoulders Hill
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Shoulders Hill is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoulders Hill
  • Longview
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Longview is located in Isle of Wight County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Longview
  • Rescue
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Rescue is located in Isle of Wight County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rescue
  • Everets
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Everets is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Everets
  • Smithfield
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Magnolia
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Magnolia is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magnolia
  • Lamberts Point
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Lamberts Point is located in Norfolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamberts Point
  • Morrison
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Morrison is located in Newport News City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morrison
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    • Suffolk
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Berkley
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Berkley is located in Norfolk City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berkley
    • Norfolk
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)

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

Newspapers Published in Chuckatuck Borough ...

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 3 newspapers that have been published in the area around Chuckatuck Borough.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Chuckatuck Borough, there are papers which were published within 8 miles [12.9 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Chuckatuck Borough.

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 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 Chuckatuck Borough:

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Chuckatuck Borough) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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 Chuckatuck Borough, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
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