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Record #16415
Name :
: John Alexander CUMMING (1907 - )
  aka : Jack Cumming


Father
:
Mother
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BMD and other details
Date of Birth
: 30 May 1907

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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Date of Death
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Abode (1) : Place of BirthScotland, Cairnie

Inchtammack Cottage
Abode (2) : Place of Death / Burial
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 24 Mar 1921
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Cassandra

Placement Family
:
Homes / Agencys
Institution (GB)
: Quarriers Orphan Homes

Agency
: Quarriers
NotesA birth registration was found for John Alexander Cumming: Date: May 30, 1906, 2:00 A.M.; Place: Inschstomack Cottage, Cairney, Aberdeenshire, Scotland; Parents: William Cumming, farm servant and Hellen Simpson, married June 15, 1895, Cairney, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

From the book "Adventurers & Exiles: The Great Scottish Exodus":

In the same area, four brothers from Cairnie, aged between on and eleven, were sent to Quarriers in 1911 after their father was sentenced to ten years imprisonment for the culpable homicide o fhis wife. At 2:30 am on 20 December 1910 William Cumming (eleven) and his mother had come home after searching fruitlesslly for the father, who had not returned from a trip to Huntly. On finding him in the house in a drunken state, a quarrel arose between the parents, and when William Cumming senior began to attack his wife, young William escaped with his brother George (nine), who had already suffered a head injury at the hands of his father. They boys ran to the police office in Huntly to get help, but by the time officers went to the household, it was too late:

A shudder swept the court when....Sergant Scott described his visit to the cottage. There on the floor lay the body of Mrs. Cumming. Near at hand lay a pair of tongs, a ladle, and a poker - all blood stained. On the bed, as soundly asleep as an innocent child, was William Cumming. Rousing the man the seized him, and soon the suspect was securely housed in the police station. Here his two little sons...were soundly asleep before the fire. "Cummings took no notice of them" concluded the sergant.

By the time the case came to court it had already been decided that the boys should be sent to Quarrier's not least because the parish council thought it was wise to remove them from the "gruesome associations" of their father's crime. William and George were sent to Canada in 1913, their younger brothers in 1921.

In 1921, John Cumming, 14, arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, in a group of 50 Quarriers children en route to Brockville, Ontario, Canada.

John Cumming immigrated to the United States, and was a devoted Jehovah's Witness. 
ContributorsCreated : 2012-07-09 08:55:22 / From original database

Last Updated : 2012-07-13 09:35:53 /

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10451 ALEXANDER, Thomas George1891ENG,    , Glasgow Camlachie Jun 1897 : Sarmatian CAN Quarriers  
6358 ALEXANDER, William1893SCT,     Apr 1906 : Sicilian CAN Quarriers  
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