JOHN WILMOT & ANN ROSS DUNLOP

Next on the Roy Wilmot four generation chart comes his paternal grandfather, JOHN WILMOT and paternal grandmother ANN ROSS DUNLOP.

 John & Annie were married about 1857. To date, I have not found a date for their marriage. They were not listed in the Presbyterian Records (her religion; on LDS  film #1307512) nor did I find a date for their marriage in the Anglican Diocese records (his religion). In 2005 a friend of the Wilmot family did research of this family. In her notes, their marriage date is 8 Sep 1857 at Springfield Farm, which is the name of the original Wilmot farm in Pittsburgh Township. Unfortunately, that date and place were not sourced so I can't confirm it.

John and Annie had five children that we knew about previous to going to Kingston, two sons and  three daughters. In Kingston we found a sixth child, another son. He was born and died in between censuses and that's why we didn't know about him before now.

The birth dates, names and christening dates of their children are:

11 Dec 1858 Mary Elizabeth Wilmot baptism  6 Mar 1859 M at St. James Church in Kingston

7 Jun 1862 John James Wilmot baptism 24 Aug 1862 at St. Mark's Church in Barriefield

16 May 1865 Albert Edward Wilmot baptism 9 July 1865 at St. Mark's Church in Barriefield

13 Mar 1868 Sarah Agnes Wilmot baptism 2 Jun 1867 at St. Mark's Church in Barriefield

1 Nov 1869 Alfred (Albert) Bower Wilmot baptism  7 Jan 1870 at St. Mark's Church

abt Aug 1873 Annie Isabel Wilmot

St James Church and St. Mark's Church are both part of the Church of England/Anglican Church. I am missing the date for Annie Isabel's christening. Most likely is it's in the Diocese data base and I just didn't write it down or perhaps she wasn't baptized as an Anglican.

One other thing of note is on the civil birth registration for Albert Bower, his name is very clearly ALFRED BOWER. On the Anglican church christening records, his name is spelled ALBERT BOYER. As best as anyone knows he was always called Bower but his name is Albert on the 1901 and 1911 census. His father also completed a civil registration for him twice: once without a name on 13 Nov 1869 and then with his name on 25 Apr 1870.

Other known events in this family's history are:

Before 1871: The death of son, Albert Edward. He would not yet have been 6 years old when he died. We could not find his death exactly in the Anglican Diocese records by his name because there was no one of that name. There was a death for Albert John Wilmot and the death age matches Albert Edward's birth date, but it's not confirmed that it is the same child. The church death record for Albert John states that he was buried in the Milton Cemetery, but there is not a marker for him in the cemetery.

 26 Jan 1887: Mary Elizabeth married JOHN GILLESPIE. They had five daughters and two sons.

• 11 Dec 1887 Harold Wilmot Gillespie
  
• 23 May 1889 Ada Victoria Gillespie
  
• 31 Dec 1891  Mabel Agnes Gillespie
  
•  8 Jan 1894  Annie Elizabeth Gillespie
  
•  5 Mar 1896 John Herbert Gillespie
  
•  7 Sep 1898 Isabel M Gillespie
  
• 31 Aug 1902 Ruth Gillespie

 

Oct 1890: Father John Wilmot died. He is buried in the Milton Cemetery. These are pictures of his tombstone from that cemetery which is along the St. Lawrence River. According to his death registration he died of a heart condition that lasted 5 months.

24 Apr 1892: Annie Isabel Wilmot never married and she died when she was only 18 years old. According to the death registration she died of heart failure and her brother, J. J. Wilmot was the informant for her death.

24 Nov 1897: Albert Bower Wilmot married Mary Agnes Graves. For details of their life, please see the post from May 8. 

15 Mar 1899: Sarah Agnes Wilmot married CHRISTOPHER LANGWITH. They had two daughters.

• June 1903 Annie Langwith
• 25 Sep 1906 Hilda Langwith

27 Dec 1899: John James Wilmot married LILLIAN MORELAND. They had one daughter and three sons. When we were in Kingston some of the people we talked to knew descendants of John James, but we didn't meet any of them. I believe this is the Wilmot family who owned and operated Wilmot's Dairy in the 1950's. Some of the people on the Frontenac mailing list have said that they remember going to Wilmot's Dairy as children for ice cream and licorice pipes.

• 22 Sep 1900 John Moreland Wilmot
• 10 Jun 1902 William Leslie Wilmot
• 13 Aug 1904 Helen Margaret Wilmot
•  4 Nov 1908 Kenneth Reid Wilmot

18 Mar 1911: Ann Ross Dunlop Wilmot died when she was 76 years old. She is in the picture on the right, but I do not know the year the picture was taken. Her name and death date are on LDS fiche #6050546 as being buried in the Cataraqui Cemetery but when we went to the Cataraqui Cemetery, they did not know where she was buried and did not have her name in their filing box. As I am not familiar with medical terms and I can't tell what she died of but the writing looks like "Chronic Infinities" for 8 years.

29 Oct 1927: Mary Wilmot Gillespie died. She was 68 years old.

 

1955: John James Wilmot died. He was 93 years old and is buried in the Cataraqui Cemetery. This is a picture of the tombstone that looks over his family plot. His wife and a few of his children are buried there with him. 

I don't know the death date for Sarah Agnes Wilmot Langwith, but according to the Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid, there is a Sarah Agnes Langwith buried in the Sandhill Battersea Cemetery in Frontenac County. It could be the same person.