Hi William,

First, I apologize for not answering you after you wrote back to me in the spring. I completely forgot about my message to you, then it came up when I was browsing sites one night. I thought, "Is that ME; is he writing to me; did I send that message?" I laugh at myself, because I do searching late at night and duplicate my efforts, forget what I did. I will bookmark this page so I can get to it quickly and see if you respond; it's the only way we can communicate. I would give you my e-mail but then everyone could see it. Is that so bad? I don't know. Not sure what to do. Anyway, I can give you info on the Dummitts in Ontario, though you were the first to point out, by your query, that my great-grandfather had come with a brother. There is a big clan of them still, around the village of Haliburton in the cottage country (north, Canadian shield, a lumbering town) and in Peterborough which was the nearest large-ish centre to which they migrated when looking for work in v. late 19th c. and early 20th c. Hope I can help and that you are still looking. Will sign off and will make certain that I can find this mesage board again!
Sincerely, Barbara Craig
(my mother was Helen Dummitt, dau. of Jos. Harry Dummitt, son of George D. who came to Ontario from Somerset; his parents were Emma ? and Joseph D, who I believe lived in Stepney in the 1880s, Joseph being an oil and colour salesman, his son Harry a tea broker. My grandfather named Jos. and Emma as his parents on his marriage cert. and a srch of Brit 1881 census gave me this info--might be wrong but could be right).