Amanda Plummer, born March 23, 1957 in New York City, is the daughter of two famous stage and screen stars, Christopher Plummer and Tammy Grimes. Her mother, Tammy Grimes, born January 30, 1934, is the second child of Luther Nichols Grimes and Eola Niles Willard, she has an older brother named Luther Nichols Grimes Jr. who was born about two years earlier, and a younger sister named Nancy Lou Grimes, born about two years later. Her father was a hotel and resort manager who was born on March 18, 1908 in Massachusetts and died on May 16, 1991 in Massachusetts, and her mother was a homemaker, born on May 28, 1911 in New Hampshire, she died on December 27, 1989 in Chester, New Hampshire.
Amanda's father is Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer, born December 13, 1929 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the only son of John Plummer, born about 1905, and Isabella Mary Abbott, born in Canada in the early 1900's. Her father was Arthur Edward Abbot, born about 1852 in Canada, and Marion Campbell, born about 1855. Isabella's siblings were Phyllis, Elizabeth and Arthur. Arthur Edward Plummer was the son of John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, born March 12, 1821 in St. Andrews, Quebec, Canada, and Mary Martha Bethune, born in October, 1824 in Montreal, died Feb. 25, 1898 in Montreal. His siblings were Harry, Frances Maria, John Bethune, William Hamilton, Mary Isabella, Charles Alfred, Alice Elizabeth, Arthur Edward and Harriet Abbott. John Joseph Caldwell Abbott was the third Prime Minister of Canada, the first Canadian born Prime Minister, and was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1892, as a Knight of St. George and St. Michael. His wife, Mary Martha Bethune, was the daughter of John Wadden Bethune, born in 1791, died 1872, and Elizabeth Hallowell, born about 1800. John Bethune was a minister of the church.
Prime Minister John Abbott was the son of John of Joseph Abbott (born April 30, 1790 in Little Strickland, Westmoreland, England, died Jan. 19, 1862 in Montreal) and Harriet Bradford, born Oct. 20, 1800 in Woodstock, New York City, New York, she died June 21, 1873 in Montreal. Their other children were Jessie Sarah Isabella, William Richard Hamilton, Christopher Charles, Haryy Braithwaite, Frederick, Harriet Elizabeth, Frances Anne, Frederick and Christopher Charles Abbott. Joseph Abbot was also a minister of the church. Harriet was the daughter of Richard Bradford Jr., born April 1, 1752 in Rotherhithe, Surrey, England, died May 11, 1817 in Montreal,, and Sarah Jeffers, born in 1766 in Ludham, Norfolk, England, died April 30, 1822 in St. Andrews, Quebec, Canada. Their other children were William McKenzie, Elizabeth, Richard III, Ann, George, John Jeffrey, Henry, Paul, Charles Christopher, Sarah, Anne and John Jeffrey Bradford.
Richard Bradford Jr., as a young man, may have been a midshipman who served with Captain Cook, on his voyage to the South Pacific or the Coast of Labrador. Records of the ship's personnel in those days were not well kept, but there is a reference at the ordianation of Richard Jr. many years later that he did sail under Captain Cook as a 'middy', the term for midshipman at that time. His ordination as a priest of the Church of England took place on May 18, 1788 at Norwich, England. It was a time of great unrest both politically in Europe with the French Revolution, and in the Church of England because of the introduction of Episcopalionism into England. By the late winter of 1793, Richard, his wife Sarah and their eight children sailed from England to America. One child, Paul, aged four, died during the voyage and was buried at sea. The rest of the voyage was very difficult, with shortages of food, water and privacy, and several very rough storms. They finally landed in New York, and the 1800 census shows them residing at Woodstock Township, Ulster County, N.Y., but they moved from there to the Catskills, and in 1805, they moved to the Township of Chatham on the north shore of the Ottawa River in Canada. Richard, in October, 1805, became the first minister to plant the Church of England in the Ottawa Valley of Canada. Richard Jr. was the son of Richard Bradford Sr., born in Rotherhithe, England and Susanna Cole. Richard Jr.'s only sibling was Mary Bradford.
Joseph Abbott, the father of Sir John Abbott, was the son of Joseph Abbot, born about 1755 in England and Isabella Kendal, born in 1755 in Morland, Westmorland, England, they married on May 18, 1785 in Morland, and their other children were Margaret, William, Christopher and Elizabeth Abbott. Isabella Kendal was the daughter of John Kendal, born about 1730 in England, and Margery ?, born about 1730 in England.