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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 Newgate Village (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 Newgate Village. 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 Newgate Village ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Newgate Village: Newgate Vlg. (in Canada, 'Vlge.' is the more common abbreviation.)

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 Newgate Village ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Newgate Village.

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 Newgate Village - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Ebenezer Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Carver Memorial Park
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • New Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Carys Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Hopson Gravesite
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Smith Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Morrison Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Maney Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Parklawn Memorial Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Emmaus Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Peninsula Memorial Park
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Mt. Olive Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
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    • Hopkins Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Pleasant Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Basset Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 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.<1>

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

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

  • Morrison
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Morrison is located in Newport News City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morrison
  • Newport News
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Grafton
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Hampton
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Menchville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Menchville is located in Newport News City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Menchville
  • Oriana
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Oriana is located in Newport News City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oriana
  • Denbigh
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Denbigh is located in Newport News City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denbigh
  • Phoebus
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Phoebus is located in Hampton City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phoebus
  • Rescue
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Rescue is located in Isle of Wight County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rescue
  • Lee Hall
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Lee Hall is located in Newport News City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lee Hall
  • Carrollton
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Yorktown
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
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    • Smithfield
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Gloucester Point
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Ocean View
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Ocean View is located in Norfolk City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ocean View

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

Newspapers Published in Newgate Village ...

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 26 newspapers that have been published in the area around Newgate Village.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Newgate Village, there are papers which were published within 5 miles [8 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Newgate Village.

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 Newgate Village:

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Newgate Village, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Newgate Village) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.