Thomas Colborne Dinsmore (1859 - 1936)

Born 18 May 1859 in Blanshard, Perth, Upper Canada

Ancestors

Husband of Eliza Jane (Bradford) Dinsmore — married 29 Dec 1880 in Wiarton, Bruce, Ontario, Canada

Died 14 Dec 1936 at age 77 in Tarentorus Township, Algoma, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

Thomas Colborne Dinsmore was born 18 May 1859 in Blanshard, Perth, Upper Canada. ^{[1] [2]} He was named in part for John Colborne, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada 1828-1836.

"According to the Wiarton Echo 1910, the first hotel in Wiarton was built on the corner of Gould and Division St. by Thomas Dinsmore." Perhaps later, Thomas and his father had a business called Dinsmore & Son, which advertised that they were importers and dealers in staple and fancy dry goods. ^[3] Thomas Colborne Dinsmore and Eliza Jane Bradford were married 29 Dec 1880 in Wiarton, Bruce, Ontario, Canada. ^[4] They lived next to Thomas' parents in Wiarton in 1881, and Thomas was a storekeeper. ^[5] He was living in Sault Ste. Marie in 1908. ^[6]

By 1911, he was farming in Tarentorus township, Algoma, Ontario.^[7] Thomas died 14 Dec 1936 pulmonary congestion in Tarentorus township. ^[8] He was buried 16 Dec 1936 in Greenwood Cemetery, Sault Ste Marie, Algoma, Ontario, Canada. ^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ Gwen and Stephen Dinsmore, Dinsmore family chart. This chart has no sources.
2. ↑ Ontario Marriage Registers, Dinsmore - Bradford registration no. 001562 (1880); digital image, Ancestry.ca (http//www.ancestry.ca : accessed 13 May 2008) citing Archives of Ontario microfilm MS932, reel 35
3. ↑ Bruce County Genealogical Society reprint of Bruce County Gazetteer and Directory for 1880-81 / Evans, 1880 Bruce County Business Directory (Owen Sound, Ontario: Bruce County Genealogical Society, 2002), 18, 146.
4. ↑ Ontario Marriage Registers, Dinsmore - Bradford registration no. 001562 (1880)
5. ↑ 1881 census of Canada, Ontario, Huron, Wiarton, district 177, subdistrict l, p. 27, household 122; Library and Archives Canada RG31,microfilm C-13276
6. ↑ "Death of D. Dinsmore," Wiarton Echo, 4 Jun 1908
7. ↑ 1911 census of Canada, Ontario, Algoma West, 23 Tarentorus, p. 3; Automated Genealogy, accessed 23 June 2016
8. ↑ Ontario Certificate of Registration of Death, Thomas Colbourne Dinsmore, no. 008909; Family Search citing Archives of Ontario.
9. ↑ Gwen Dinsmore, Dinsmore burials, Greenwood Cemetery, Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. This list, dated Jan./94, has no sources or references.