I really don't think the cemetery out Albion Rd. is the Billings Bridge cemetery as it is more that 4 miles from the Billings settlement. In current times we think little of getting in the car driving that little distance, but then it would be a long ways. I checked the Gloucester map from http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/Countyatlas/images/maps/townshipmaps/car-m-gloucester.jpg and found there was very little but swampy area out that part of Albion road. Further checking shows a small church just to the north east corner of Bank and River road. There seems to be the cross for a cemetery in the area shaded for the Rideau River. There is also a map just for the town of Billings Bridge, which shows the church and the parsonage quite well, but no cemetery. An exhaustive scanning of the Gloucester map shows no nearby churches, until one gets to the Leitrim area - which has its own Post Office it is so far away. Nepean, on the other side of the Rideau shows no nearby churches, until one gets to the Glebe, where much of the area was church property - but I do not think the churches were plentiful at this time. I think that the cemetery was at Billings Bridge, and was moved when the area was redeveloped. I do not know if there was an industrial presence in this area between the current park/shopping center and the 1880's map of what appears to farm land and some local industry, so when this move would have been made is further conjecture. Steve O. Al Lewis Wrote: > Bill and/or Linda: > > Whereabouts on Albion Road is this cemetery? North or South side of Albion? > East or west of Bank Street? > I'd like to take a drive over there. > > Before 1900 or so, there was a separate village called "Billings Bridge". > Some of my ancestors were buried at the Catholic cemetery at Billings > Bridge. This might be the cemetery on Albion, unless there's a cemetery > attached to St. Thomas Aquinas Church which is on Kilborn. You say that most > of the surnames in the cemetery are French. > There may be some Irish "residing" there as well. Hi Al: The Cemetery, St. Thomas R.C. Cemetery (St. Bernard's Cemetery) is located on Albion Road (the West side of Bank St.) heading towards the Rideau-Carleton Race Track/Casino. It is on the left-hand side going towards the Race Track/Casino, perhaps 1/2 a kilometer from Bank St. I think this may be the cemetery you are looking for Al, as some of my Brule relatives were said to be "buried at the Billings Bridge cemetery" and there they were at this one. I am sure there are a "goodly" number of Irish inhabitants. Enjoy. Bill