John Reid Cumming1
#15264, (1880 - 1939)
| Father | David Cumming1 (c 1845 - 1892) |
| Mother | Elizabeth Graham Reid1 (1844 - 1929) |
| Relationships | 3rd great-grandson of James Graham 2nd great-grandson of William Reid |
| Charts | James Graham & Agnes Finlayson - collapsible 7-generation descendant chart William Reid & Lilias Sharp - collapsible 5-generation descendant chart |
Children of John Reid Cumming and Mary Edith Stirling |
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| Overview | * * * * * [submitted by Colin Bendall, Stirling, Scotland, 2013]. John Cumming, Marion's father, was born at 4 Liversidge Road in Tranmere (Birkenhead), the family home, on September 7th 1880. He was the second youngest of the seven children of David and Elizabeth Cumming. Nothing is known of his childhood, other than that he was brought up in Tranmere. He was described as a scholar in the 1891 Census. His father died in 1892, when John was about 12 years old. Strangely, John is the only son who was not mentioned amongst the chief mourners at his father's funeral. In the 1901 Census for England and Wales John Cumming was aged 20 and born in Birkenhead. He was a resident of Poulton-cum-Seacombe and of No Occupation. He married Mary Edith Sterling, also from Birkenhead, on December 25th 1901. The marriage was at St. John's Church of England Parish Church in Grange Road, Birkenhead. The witnesses were an Elizabeth Ann Ellis and a Henry Ellis. Both the Church's Register (now held at Cheshire Record Office) and the Birkenhead Register Office copy contain a number of apparently accidental inaccuracies. A copy of the Marriage Entry at the Register Office shows John Cummings, a labourer and bachelor aged 22 living at 19 Huskisson Street, and Edith Stirling, a spinster aged 21 and also of 19 Huskisson Street. John's father is shown as John Cummings, a foreman painter; Edith's father is shown as William Stirling, a watchmaker. The marriage of John Cummings and Edith Stirling, aged 22 and 21, bachelor and spinster, both of 19 Huskisson Street, Birkenhead, is the only match in the St. Catherine's Indexes. A much later second search, of www.FreeBMD.org.uk , revealed more than one candidate for the husband but the only one who married an Edith Stirling was as previously found. Another check on the Birkenhead St. John's Registers, held at Cheshire Record Office, confirmed these strange parents' names. In the 1911 Census for England and Wales John Cumming was aged 31 and living at 18 Cook Street, Birkenhead in a private house with three rooms, a married Iron Foundry Labourer. His wife of 9 years was Edith Cumming, aged 30, she did not work for a living. They had had three children and all were alive: Gordon, aged 8 and at school, Muriel aged 6 and also at school and William aged 3. John and Edith's marriage resulted in four children in total, the first - Gordon - being born shortly before their marriage. They were: Gordon (14/12/1901 to 12/11/1974), Edith Muriel, whose birth was registered under the name Cummings, (25/9/1904 to 13/2/1966), William John (Bill) (15/11/1907 to ?4/2/1981) and Marion (24/12/1913 to 6/10/1992). All were born in Birkenhead. Muriel married John Cullen, Bill married Gwladys Evans and Marion, of course, married Ronald Bendall. Gordon was a confirmed bachelor and he continued to live at 268 Borough Road until his death in 1974. He was an electrician, working for the Liverpool Corporation electricity supply company (later Manweb). When John Cumming was in his thirties, he was a labourer in an iron foundry. This was a fairly common job in Birkenhead at that time as, apart from uses in ship-building, the town supplied cast iron structures all over the world for the still expanding railway industry. He achieved some seniority in his work as he was described as a Iron Foundry Furnaceman when Marion married in 1938. He died at home just a year later at the age of 59, on October 7th 1939. The cause of death was given as Angina Pectoris. Betty Candlish remembers him as blind, with cataracts in both eyes (a common furnaceman's complaint at one time); it is not known when he became unfit to work.. * * * * *2 |
| Birth | John Reid Cumming was born on 7 Sep 1880 in Tranmere, Cheshire.2 |
| (with Parents) 1881 Census | John Reid Cumming appeared on the 1881 Census of Tranmere, Cheshire with his parents. He was 6 weeks old and was born in Tranmere, Cheshire.1 |
| (with Parents) 1891 Census | John appeared on the 1891 Census of Tranmere, Cheshire with his parents. He was 10, a Scholar, and was born in Birkenhead, Chester.3 |
| (with Mother) 1901 Census | John appeared on the 1901 Census of Poulton Cum Seacombe Civil Parish, Cheshire with his mother Elizabeth Graham Cumming. He was 20, had no occupation, and was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire.4 |
| Marriage | John Reid Cumming married Mary Edith Stirling, daughter of William Stirling and Elizabeth Lewis, on 25 Dec 1901 in Birkenhead, Cheshire.2,5 |
| 1911 Census | John and Edith Cumming appeared on the 1911 Census of Birkenhead, Cheshire, at 18 Cook View. John was 31 and was a labourer in an iron foundry. Edith was 30 and the mother of 3 children, all still living. They had been married 9 years and lived in 3 rooms. Their children were Gordon (8), Muriel (6), and William (3). The eldest two attended school. All the family were born in Birkenhead.6 |
| Death | John died on 7 Oct 1939 in Birkenhead.2 |
| Last Edited | 27 Jan 2014 |
Citations
- [S814] 1881 Census for England & Wales, RG11/3586 folio 18. Image viewed at Ancestry.
- [S2843] Colin Bendall, Stirling, Scotland, research carried out in the period 1994-2012.
- [S572] 1891 Census for England & Wales, RG12/2887 folio 60. Image viewed at Ancestry.
- [S744] 1901 Census for England & Wales, RG13/3406 ed39 f63 p33. Image viewed at Ancestry.
- [S387] FreeBMD. John Cummings & Edith Stirling, Dec Q 1901, Birkenhead RD.
- [S1656] Image of the 1911 Census for England and Wales (1911 Census.co.uk, http://www.1911census.co.uk/), RG14, RD 452, SD 1, ED 30, Schedule 86.
- [S687] E-mails from Andy Candlish to J Kolthammer.