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Dunsire, Andrew[1, 2]
1867 - 1948 (80 years) 
Has 28 ancestors and 52 descendants in this family tree.
Set As Default Person 
Est 1772 - Yes, date unknown
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Relationship 
with Living Birth 23 Nov 1867 Links, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland 
Gender Male _UID B6A9282162F74E4CB4D01838395D25E61034 Death 21 Jan 1948 Newport-On-Tay, Fife, Scotland Patriarch & Matriarch 
Dunsyre, Andrew
b. Abt 1635, ?
d. Unknown, ? (5 x Great Grandfather) 
Tod, Ann
b. Est 1772
d. Yes, date unknown (Great Grandmother)Headstones 
Submit Headstone Photo Person ID I3655 The Family Maw Last Modified 25 Oct 2017
Father 
Dunsire, James
b. 17 Nov 1834, Methilhill, Wemyss, Fife, Scotland
d. 10 Feb 1912, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland (Age 77 years)
Other Partners: Mathewson, Marjorie m. 25 Feb 1859Mother Hastie, Ann
b. 8 Mar 1842, Links, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland
d. 19 May 1923, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland (Age 81 years) Marriage 13 Feb 1865 Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland Age at Marriage He : 30 years and 3 months - She : 22 years and 11 months. Family ID F1161 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Cook, Mary Black
b. 2 Mar 1868, Methilhill, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland
d. 12 Oct 1901, Outtrim, , Victoria, Australia (Age 33 years)
Marriage 5 Dec 1890 Links, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland Age at Marriage He : 23 years and 1 month - She : 22 years and 9 months. Children6 children Family ID F1160 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 25 Oct 2017
Family 2 Dewar, Jane
b. 1867
d. Yes, date unknownMarriage 18 Dec 1902 Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland - The marriage was by Declaration in the presence of Robert Robertson, miner, and Ann Robertson, of 32 Links, Buckhaven. It was an Irregular marriage, by warrant of the Sheriff Substitute of the Lothians and Peebles dated 18 December 1902, registered 18 December 1902 at Edinburgh. Ann Robertson was the elder sister of the groom, Robert Robertson her husband, and also the next-door neighbours of the groom, whilst the bride lived andother two door away at No.34.
Age at Marriage He : 35 years and 1 month - She : ~ 36 years. _STAT Divorced Family ID F1165 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 25 Oct 2017
Family 3 Smith, Marion Mackie "Minnie" "Minnie"
b. 13 Mar 1874, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland
d. 1927, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland (Age 52 years)
Marriage 6 Oct 1910 Register Office, Blackburn, , Lancashire, England Age at Marriage He : 42 years and 11 months - She : 36 years and 7 months. Children2 children Family ID F1167 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 25 Oct 2017
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Birth - 23 Nov 1867 - Links, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland 
Marriage - 5 Dec 1890 - Links, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland 
Child - Dunsire, James - 1891 - Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland Child - Dunsire, David Waters Cook - 31 Jul 1893 - Links, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland Child - Dunsire, Andrew - 9 Dec 1895 - Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland Child - Dunsire, Alison Robertson Smith Cook - 1897 - Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland 
Child - Dunsire, William Hastie Cook - 16 Oct 1899 - Outtrim, , Victoria, Australia Child - Dunsire, John Smith - 1901 - Outtrim, , Victoria, Australia Marriage - 18 Dec 1902 - Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland 
Marriage - 6 Oct 1910 - Register Office, Blackburn, , Lancashire, England Child - Dunsire, Catherine Livingstone - 10 Aug 1911 - Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland Child - Dunsire, John - 9 Sep 1912 - Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland 
Death - 21 Jan 1948 - Newport-On-Tay, Fife, Scotland = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
Notes - #111.
Andrew Dunsire was my grandfather. In 1897 he and his wife Mary Black Cook, with their three young children James, Andrew and Alison, emigrated to Australia with Mary's father David Cook and most of his family, to open a new coal-mine in Outtrim, Gippsland, Victoria. My father, William, was born there in 1899, and another child in 1901. But tragically, Mary died in that year, and Andrew was obliged to return to Fife with his young family.
Family tradition certainly had it that Andrew either had a housekeeper, or a second wife, who was not very good to the children. But by the time I and my cousins had acquired an interest in investigating the family history in this respect, the intervening generation (our uncles and aunts who had known her] had passed on; and no written evidence survived. Only recently, with the help of the online database Scotlandspeople, was a name discovered and a marriage certificate obtained. The lady was a Jane Dewar, a neighbour of Andrew's parents at the Links, Buckhaven.
The marriage was an Irregular marriage, by warrant of the Sheriff Substitute of the Lothians and Peebles dated 18 December 1902, registered 18 December 1902 at Edinburgh. No clergyman was involved: under Scots Law, it was a lawful marriage by Declaration, in the presence of Robert Robertson, miner, and Ann Robertson, of 32 Links, Buckhaven. Ann Robertson was the elder sister of the groom, Robert Robertson her husband, and also the next-door neighbours of the groom, whilst the bride lived another two doors away at No.34.
In the corner of the marriage certificate there is an oval rubber stamp which reads 'SEE REG. OF CORR. ENT&. VOL. XXI p.164', and in the centre of the stamp, the handwritten word 'Divorce'. The date of the divorce was 3 June 1910, "pronounced by Lord Mackenzie, Ordinary, in an action at the instance of Andrew Dunsire, miner, College Street, Buckhaven, against Jane Dewar or Dunsire, his wife, residing at Denbeath". So it looks as if Jane had left Andrew, for whatever reasons. But certainly, Andrew married again later that year, in October 1910, in Darwen Lancashire, Marion Mackie Smith. She was known as 'Minnie', the cousin of his first wife Mary Black Cook (whose mother was Alison Smith). They had two further children, Catherine [Katie] and John.
According to the Statutory Register of Deaths Index, an Andrew Dunsire age 80 died in 1948 in Forgan [parish]. This included Newport-on-Tay, where Andrew's youngest daughter Katie lived with her husband Tom Thomson, a police sergeant, and my two cousins Tom and Marion. On the certificate Andrew is described as widower of 1st Mary Black Cook and 2nd Marion Mackie Smith. The second marriage is not mentioned. Died in Police Station House, King Street, East Newport. Usu.res. 21 College Street, Buckhaven. 80. Father James Wilkie Dunsire, colliery manager, deceased. Mother Ann Dunsire ms Hastie, deceased. Carcinoma of Stomach, Archb.B.Taylor MB ChB. Informant Jas. Dunsire, son, 7 Lamont Terrace, Crail.
Sources - [S18] Andrew Dunsire, Dunsire Website, (http://www.dunsires.co.uk), http://www.dunsires.co.uk/page30.html (Reliability: 3).
- [S23] Andrew Dunsire, Andrew Dunsire.
