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Family #53.
According to the Statutory Register of Deaths Index, David Dunsire age 82 died in 1877 in Buckhaven.

David married Mathewson, Janet on 30 Jul 1819 in West Wemyss, Fife, Scotland. Janet (daughter of Mathewson, David and Wilson, Catherine) was born on 17 Feb 1799 in West Wemyss, Fife, Scotland; died on 2 Jul 1859 in Methilhill, Wemyss, Fife, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Dunsire, Andrew was born on 29 Oct 1820; died in 1888 in Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland.
2. Dunsire, David was born on 26 Apr 1822; and died.
3. Dunsire, Thomas was born on 4 Sep 1825 in Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland; died in 1895 in Innerleven, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland.
4. Dunsire, David was born on 6 Mar 1828 in Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland; died in 1899 in Auchterderran Parish, Lochgelly, , Fife, Scotland.
5. Dunsire, Robert was born on 18 Nov 1830 in Coaltown Of Wemyss, , Fife, Scotland; died in 1871 in Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland.
6. Dunsire, James was born on 17 Nov 1834 in Methilhill, Wemyss, Fife, Scotland; died on 10 Feb 1912 in Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland.
7. Dunsire, Catherine was born on 6 Oct 1837 in Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland; died in 1913 in Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland.

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• Alt. Birth: 30 Dec 1759, Methilhill, Wemyss, Fife, Scotland; Alt. Birth

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Family #49. Andrew was a collier in Methilhill.

Andrew married Nicol, Agnes on 17 Nov 1781 in Wemyss, Fife, Scotland. Agnes (daughter of Nicol, Thomas and Braid, Agnes) was born on 7 Mar 1762 in Dubbiside, Markinch, , Fife, Scotland; died after 1841 in West Coaltown, Wemyss, Fife, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alt. Birth: 26 Aug 1722, Methilhill, Wemyss, Fife, Scotland; Alt. Birth

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Family #46.
Known as Peter at marriage, but christened Patrick.
Peter Dunsyre was a collier in Methilhill. He is the first Peter Dunsyre in the parish records, with the
exception of a witness at an earlier baptism. The present Peter is a son of Andrew / Janet Hird only if he
is the same person as the Patrick born to that couple in 1722.
Why should we think so?
Well, there is plenty of evidence in the parish records for this switch of first name around this time.
Men who marry as a Patrick call themselves Peter when they register a child (e.g. Patrick Thomson m. Margaret Mathie in 1748, and christened children with her in 1759 and 1763 as peter Thomson: another Patrick Thomsonndid the same with Agnes Graeme in 1777 and 1792; and a third Patrick Thomson married Janet Anderson in Auchtertool in 1720, but was sometimes Patrick, sometimes Peter when they baptised children in Auchterderran. Patrick Gordon married Mary Gourlay in Scoonie in 1812, but called himself Peter Gordon for the christenings. And so on: there are many other examples.
Why do that? In the Scotland of the mid-eighteenth century, many Irishmen had come over to work on the canals (as ‘navvies’) and in mining. Perhaps even a bond-slave collier (as Scottish miners all were at that time) did not wish to be identified as a ‘paddy’, and stopped answering to Patrick. The last birth of a Patrick Dunsyre in the old parish records was in Dysart in 1749.

Peter married Japhray, Janet on 21 Dec 1756 in Wemyss, Fife, Scotland. Janet was born on 5 Nov 1736 in St Monance, Fife, Scotland; died in Unknown in ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alt. Birth: 5 Nov 1736; Alt. Birth

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Thomas married Braid, Agnes on 17 Nov 1755 in Markinch, , Fife, Scotland. Agnes was born est 1735; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family #42.

Andrew married Hird, Janet on 30 Jun 1721 in Wemyss, Fife, Scotland. Janet (daughter of Herd, Archibald and Lyall, Christian) was born on 1 Feb 1691 in Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland; died in Unknown in ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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