Family/Spouse: Living NICOLSON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Living NICOLSON
2. Living NICOLSON

Family/Spouse: Living DAVIS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Jo-Anne Melmer Beekx e-mail: [email protected] from 5-5-02: >> John George Melmer is recorded as John Melmer. We always called him Uncle Jack. His wife Mary's real name is Enid Amy Mary Robertson. Born May 25, 1925 in Montreal PQ. They were married Nov. 10, 1944 in Halifax NS.<<

John(Jack) married Living ROBERTSON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

NOTE 1./ William Elisha and Cecil John Melmer: e-mail from Jo-Anne Beekx

William Elisha Melmer and Cecil John Melmer are one and the same. I have a copy of original and there is a notation on the lower right corner (can't be seen on computer image) that states "Registration changed by inking out William Elisha, establishing Cecil John as per declaration by Father. March 4, 1909". I have not been able to find out why.

Cecil married Ethel Grace CUMBERS on 03 Dec 1923 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Ethel (daughter of John William CUMBERS and Edna Celia WATSON) was born on 06 Aug 1904 in Winnipeg, Manitoba; died on 08 Dec 1977 in London, Ontario; was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, London Middlesex London MX-141. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Allan married Sarah JONES. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

NOTE 1./ Part of e-mail from Vera VanWagoner on 4/13/02 in response to Jo-Anne Beekx (Melmer) contact w/RAM

My thanks to Jo-Anne who just gave us news of family that is very important to me. Cecil's brother, Russell, was my mother's first cousin and they were very close. John Melmer, (father of Cecil, Russell, Ida and Dora) was my grandmother Grace Melmer's brother and as brother and sister they were very close. John Melmer and wife Mary invited his sister Grace and her daughter (my mother, Ruth) to spend a winter with them in Florida. When Grace Melmer came to Michigan to live, whenever she went back to Canada to visit which was quite often, she most always stayed with her brother Jack and his wife Mary. Russell said when he would come home at night, he always knew when Aunt Grace was visiting as he could hear her snoring.

NOTE 2./ 1901 London Middlesex census: District: ON MIDDLESEX (East/Est) (#87)
Subdistrict: London (City/Cité) Wards/Quartiers No. 3 and 4 D-3 Page 10

Family Name Sex Relationship M/S DOB Age
103 Hunt Eliza F Head W Jul 24 1838 62
103 Melmar John M Boarder M Jul 28 1877 23
103 Melmar Mary F Boarder's Wife M Mar 10 1879 21

NOTE 3./ Detroit Border Crossings and Passenger and Crew Lists, 1905-1957

Name Arrival Date Estimated Birth Year Port of Arrival
John H Melmer 12 May 1921 Detroit, Michigan
John H Melmer 11 Oct 1920 Detroit, Michigan
Mary Melmer 11 Oct 1920 Detroit, Michigan
Mary Melmer 1 May 1921 Detroit, Michigan

John married Mary Priscilla HUNT on 27 Sep 1899 in London, Ontario, Canada. Mary (daughter of Elisha HUNT and Elizabeth Catherine MILLS) was born on 10 Mar 1880 in London, Ontario; died on 08 Dec 1961 in St Mary Hospital, London, Ontario; was buried on 11 Dec 1961 in Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, London Middlesex London MX-141. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

NOTE 1./ Detroit Border Crossings and Passenger and Crew Lists, 1905-1957

Name Arrival Date Estimated Birth Year Port of Arrival
John H Melmer 12 May 1921 Detroit, Michigan
John H Melmer 11 Oct 1920 Detroit, Michigan
Mary Melmer 11 Oct 1920 Detroit, Michigan
Mary Melmer 1 May 1921 Detroit, Michigan

Notes:

Notes for JOHN WILLIAM CUMBERS:
John is buried in the old St. James Cemetery in Winnipeg. Walter (his brother) and wife Daisy are buried next to him.

John J. Lowen, of Kingston, Ontario (grandson of Walter William Cumbers) has supplied what purports to be a "Cumbers Family History," written by someone in Winnipeg, and given to John by his Aunt Beryl Chandler. While it has many flaws, some "facts" can be gleaned from it.
1. John is said to have been named after his father, and born on the ship on the way to Canada. This cannot be true. The 1891 Canadian Census shows him as 18 years old, birthday February 20, 1874. Since they left England in 1884,(possibly 1882) according to the 1901 Winnipeg Census, he would have been 10 years old on board the ship.
According to this "history," he died of Typhoid Fever in the Northwest Territories. But the 1901 Winnipeg Census places him in Winnipeg, Married to Edna (Celia).

John Lowen reports that Pat Purdy, who was raised by Walter (Pop) Cumbers has photographed the grave of the eldest sibling in the John Cumbers familyi, John William Cumbers.

The grave marker apparently shows his birth date as March 18, 1874, not February 20, 1872.

John married Edna Celia WATSON on 19 Jun 1900 in Holy Trinity Church, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Edna (daughter of Joseph WATSON and Emma CHAMBERLAIN) was born on 19 Oct 1878 in Lucan, Middlesex North, Ontario; died in 1957 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Notes for CELIA (EDNA) WATSON:
Celia (Edna) Watson married John Cumbers and had two sons, Ernest, (who worked for City Dairy, and married Ruby Young,) and George, (who worked for Eatons, and had two daughters, Elizabeth (Betty) (nee Cumbers) Todd and Dorothy Cumbers.
When Celia's husband John died of Typhoid Fever, she married his brother, Henry, and had a daughter Ethel, who married Jack Millner. When Henry died, (also of Typhoid Fever), Celia (Edna) then married Mr. Wickson, and had a daughter, Ella. Although not a Cumbers, she was raised as Ernie and George's half sister. Ella's son Douglas Gudmonson, still keeps in touch with Dorothy, Betty and Aunt Ruby. (Aunt Ruby died March 26, 2000.)