Thomas
Lorimer
25 June 1871 — 2 March 1943
Siblings
Unknown
Children
Biography
At the time of the 1901 census, the couple and their children Francis, Thomas, Isabella and Dugald were living at 45 Centre Street in Glasgow. The youngest children John and Mabel were born several years later. Census records from 1911 are not publically available, but can be viewed for a fee here.
In 1916, Thomas and Isabella’s oldest son Thomas Jr was stationed in France as part of the 1st Battalion of the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders. He was killed on 15 August at the age of 20 during the Battle of the Somme. The family was living at 21 Dale Street, Glasgow at the time of the tragedy.
In 1926, Thomas boarded the SS Letitia with his wife and their children Mabel and John to start a new life in Canada as a farmer. He arrived in Quebec on 20 June 1926 after a 9-day journey across the Atlantic, and eventually settled in Ontario, Canada.
He died on 2 March 1943 at the age of 71 and is buried in White Brick Church Cemetery, Wentworth County, Ontario, Canada with his wife and two of his children.
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Sources
Thomas Lorimer in Canadian Passenger Lists; Ancestry.com. Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. (accessed 8 February 2020). Original Source: Library and Archives Canada; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Passenger Lists, 1865–1935; Series: RG 76-C; Roll: T-14723. Department of Employment and Immigration fonds. Library and Archives Canada Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Digital image.
Ocean Arrivals Form for Dugald Lorimer; Ancestry.com. Canada, Ocean Arrivals (Form 30A), 1919-1924 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009 (accessed 7 February 2020). Original Source: Library and Archives Canada. Form 30A, 1919-1924 (Ocean Arrivals). Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Library and Archives Canada, n.d.. RG 76. Department of Employment and Immigration Fonts. Microfilm Reels: T-14939 to T-15248. Digital image.
Photo of SS Athenia from Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives (GGA). GGA Image ID #115f375cab. <https://www.ggarchives.com/OceanTravel/Brochures/AnchDnldsn-1926-LetitiaAndAthenia.html>. Accessed 30 September 2025.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (Online database), <https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/553471/lorimer,-thomas>, accessed 8 February 2020. (Entry for Private Thomas Lorimer, S/20441)
Thomas Lorimer Death Record; Ancestry.com. Ontario, Canada, Deaths and Deaths Overseas, 1869-1947 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010 (accessed 8 February 2020). Original Source: Archives of Ontario. Registrations of Deaths, 1869-1947 (MS 935, reels 1-694), Archives of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Digital image.
Canadian Headstones, database and images (https://canadianheadstones.com : accessed 20 April 2020), headstone details for Thomas Lorimer, citing White Brick Cemetery, Ontario, Canada ; submitted by glanbrookheritage@yahoo.ca on 2012-02-14.
Thomas Lorimer in Statutory registers Marriages. Scotland. Anderston, Glasgow. 1894. 644/10 92. https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk. Accessed 17 November 2021.
“Sold properties: St Vincent Crescent”, https://www.clydeproperty.co.uk/property/HR04486; © Clyde Property 2018. Accessed 17 November 2021.
Dugald McCorkindale Lorimer in Statutory registers Births. Scotland. St Rollox, Lanark. 1900. 644/6 633. https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk. Accessed 17 November 2021.