DNA Plummer notes

Research unproductive but in December 2018 Carolyn may have found that Pheobe Plummer born c1791 had an illegitimate son Edmund b.1813 who was baptised in Diss 19 September 1813, natural son of Phoebe Plumber [sic] farmer’s daughter. Edmund later emigrated to Australia with his family adding a middle name Sheldrake.   Phoebe married widower George Talbot in 1824 and Charles was born 1826. Carolyn thinks that John Plummer who was with Pheobe in 1841 was Edmund’s son.

  • Edmund 1813- a butcher married
    • + Sophia Parson 1813- [transcribed by Ancestry as Larson] on 25 February 1834 at Bunwell. Born Bunwell.
    •  John 1835-born Dickleburgh, apprentice to his father in 1851
    • William 1840- born Dickleburgh
    • Edward 1843- born Dickleburgh
    •  Anna 1850- born Diss
  • In 1854 Sophia emigrated to Australia arriving Melbourne with
    • John 11
    • Edward 8
    • Frederick 6
    • Charles 4
    • Hannah 3
    • Ellen, 4 months old
  • Did Edmund travel earlier? He was a publican when
    • George Sheldrake Plummer was baptised in 1858 Preston, St Peter’s Eastern Hill
  • Sophia died 1882, will leaves land to her son in law Alfred G Johnson sheep farmer

“4th cousin” with poor tree.  Tree 1 and tree 2

Edmund Henry Plummer 1806- so William and Mary Plummer bapt Queenhithe, London.

POSSIBLE parents of Phoebe

  • Robert Plummer, singleman of the parish of Diss, married .. he could be
    • + Susanna Harrison at Burston on 12 June 1783
    • Mary Plummer 1785- baptised Burston no Ancestry hints
    • James 1788- baptised 1790 Diss Ancestry suggests he was in 4th Dragoon Guards in Canada, registered 15 November 1807, birthplace Burston
      • + Charlotte Watling at Great Massingham in 1810 . Problem? … near Kings Lynn. States 24th Dragoon Guards.
    • Richard Harrison 1789 – baptised Diss 1790 could have been buried ‘of Norwich’ at Loddon in 1816.
      • NOT, too young for + Jane Markall on 27 August 1801 Diss, both single
    • Zachary 1791- at Diss no Ancestry hints
    • Elizabeth bpt 1794 Diss
    • Susanna Patience 1795 baptised Diss 1820 no Ancestry hints
  • 1841: John Plummer b.1797 butcher with John Plummer b.1826
  • 1851: John Plummer b1798 Diss farmer with spouse Harriet b1805 Dickleburgh
  • a Richard Plummer 1768-1827 was buried Diss
  • Ephphatha Plummer 1794-1829 buried Diss
  • Elizabeth Plummer 1793-1813 of Ashby, Suffolk buried Burston