John Orme Plummer (1894 - 1977)

Born 21 Oct 1894 in De Lamar, Owyhee, Idaho, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Isabella Mary (Abbott) Plummer — married Feb 1929 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Descendants

Died 13 Jul 1977 at age 82 in York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

John Orme Plummer was born in October 1894 in De Lamar, Owyhee, Idaho, United States. ^[1][2] De Lamar was a mining town, but it is now a ghost town.^[3]

John Orme Plummer was secretary to the Dean of Sciences at McGill University in Montreal.

In 1911, John Plummer lived with his parents Frank and Frances Plummer and two sisters, at 109 Madison Street, Toronto North Sub-Districts 11, Ontario, Canada.^[2]

During World War 1, John was a Lieutenant in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.^[4]

Isabella Mary Abbott and John Ormer Plummer were married on 28 Feb 1929.

"John Ormer Plummer, Bond Salesman, Bachelor, aged thirty-four years (Church of England) of 460 Jarvis Street in the City of Toronto in Province of Ontario, formerly of Idaho, one of the United States of America, son of Frank Plummer and Frances (Fetherstonhaugh) his wife: and Isabella Mary Abbott of 299 Pine Avenue West in the City of Montreal Province of Quebec, spinster aged thirty-eight (Church of England) daughter of Arthur Edward Abbott and Marianne Jane (Campbell) his wife. Were married after the due publication of Banns, on the twenty-eighth day of February in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. By me, ??? Dean and Rector. In the presence of: Geo. Plummer, Pauline F. --, W.E. Abbott, Marianne Jane Abbott."^[5]

• Fact: Immigration (1898)
• Fact: Residence (1911) Toronto North Sub-Districts 11-84, Ontario, Canada

Sources

1. ↑ Canada, WWI CEF Attestation Papers, 1914-1918 [Ancestry.com. database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2006. Images are used with the permission of Library and Archives Canada. Original data: Canada. "Soldiers of the First World War (1914-1918)." Record Group 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 4930 - 35. Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} "Recensement du Canada de 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:27XM-LFL : 16 July 2016), John Plummer in entry for Frank Plummer, 1911; citing Census, Toronto North Sub-Districts 11-84, Ontario, Canada, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 2,418,527. Year: 1911; Census Place: 11 - Ward four, Toronto North, Ontario; Page: 4; Family No: 38. Library and Archives Canada: Microfilm: T-20402; Reference: RG31, Statistics Canada; Item Number: 6720066 Item 6720066

   Frank Plummer, 47 b. Ontario Feb 1864; Frances Plummer, 46 b. Ontario Nov 1865; John Plummer, 17 b. U S A Oct 1894; Katherine Plummer, 9 b. Ontario Aug 1902; Elizabeth Plummer, 5 b. Ontario May 1906. John came to Canada in 1898.

3. ↑ Wikipedia:De Lamar, Idaho
4. ↑ British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920 [Ancestry.com. database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. Original data: Army Medal Office. WWI Medal Index Cards. In the care of The Western Front Association website.
5. ↑ Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968 [Ancestry.com. database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2008. Original data: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 17 February 2021, 05:21), entry for John Orme Plummer(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LY9R-8YH); contributed by various users.
• Wikipedia contributors, "Christopher Plummer," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christopher_Plummer&oldid=632850067 (accessed November 14, 2014).