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• Baptism: 16 Apr 1836, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland

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Family #52.
The second of Agnes Nicol’s sons to wed (though not the older) was William (b.1798) , in 1818, to a lady variously named in parish registers as Hannah, Ann or Agnes McBean, or Agnes MacBonn, McBone, McBain, even Bones. You have to realise that in Fife, a ‘bone’ in dialect is a bane: all of these spellings sound much the same. A collier in East and West Wemyss and Methilhill, he ended up as a bleacher in Kirkland. He died 3 September 1864, in Methil, of asthma, age 66. They had ten children: Agnes (b. 1819, m. Andrew Mercer) did not appear in the parish register; then Andrew b.1820 (d.inf.), Janet 1822 (m.John Suttie), Alexander 1824, Mary 1826 (m. John Galloway), William 1831 (m. Catherine Guthrie), Ann Burt 1833 (m. Henry Thomson), Margaret 1836, and Andrew Keilor 1839 (m. Jane McKay). Only the youngest two sons, William b. 1831 and Andrew Keilor b.1839, produced families. Agnes had a colourful life with the Kennoway collier, Andrew Mercer. Through a descendant (Malcolm Holt) a family tree is available (not presented here - see www.skeyltd.demon.co.uk/fife_gen/index.html ]. A daughter (Janet) of Janet and John Suttie later married Thomas Bisset, the brother of Catherine Bisset who married Alexander Dunsire b.1843. (Information from Jim Bisset).

William married McBean, Agnes on 24 Jul 1818 in Wemyss, Fife, Scotland. Agnes was born about 1789 in Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland; died on 7 Apr 1867 in Methil, Buckhaven, Fife, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The second of Agnes Nicol’s sons to wed (though not the older) was William (b.1798) , in 1818, to a lady variously named in parish registers as Hannah, Ann or Agnes McBean, or Agnes MacBonn, McBone, McBain, even Bones. You have to realise that in Fife, a ‘bone’ in dialect is a bane: all of these spellings sound much the same. A collier in East and West Wemyss and Methilhill, he ended up as a bleacher in Kirkland. They had ten children: Agnes (b. 1819, m. Andrew Mercer) did not appear in the parish register; then Andrew b.1820 (d.inf.), Janet 1822 (m.John Suttie), Alexander 1824, Mary 1826 (m. John Galloway), William 1831 (m. Catherine Guthrie), Ann Burt 1833 (m. Henry Thomson), Margaret 1836, and Andrew Keilor 1839 (m. Jane McKay). Only the youngest two sons, William b. 1831 and Andrew Keilor b.1839, produced families. Agnes had a colourful life with the Kennoway collier, Andrew Mercer. Through a descendant (Malcolm Holt) a family tree is available (not presented here - see www.skeyltd.demon.co.uk/fife_gen/index.html ]. A daughter (Janet) of Janet and John Suttie later married Thomas Bisset, the brother of Catherine Bisset who married Alexander Dunsire b.1843. (Information from Jim Bisset).
William died 3 September 1864, of asthma. Agnes died 7 April 1867, also in Methil, cause obscure.

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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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