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• _UID: 40DBE9311A024DCBBFAD96FF8ABCCF34B3E3
• Alt. Birth: 30 Dec 1759, Methilhill, Wemyss, Fife, Scotland; Alt. Birth

Notes:

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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• _UID: CA98A2961D0F4451B1AE377DD78C6593C9E6

Notes:

Alexander b.1782 appeared clearly enough in IGI, both the 1988 and 1992 editions, as a twin brother for Peter, but not in the parish register itself or the OPR Index. There is no further mention of Alexander. We assume that both he (if there was such a child) and Peter died in infancy; Peter's name was replaced later.

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• _UID: 7387EE642DA54243B0C95DBF9897815840BA

Notes:

Died in infancy.

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• _UID: 22698C3E73CF4429B9BB484B3C225924E6AF

Notes:

Died in infancy.

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• _UID: 5A36DA314B7645998DE8CB99782366F70B67

Notes:

Does not appear in IGI or OPRI. Information from Mark Anderson: contrary to my speculation in the book "Dunsire Families of Fife", that Agnus Dunsire, daughter of John Dunsire and Christian Buchan, had married twice (once to James WilKie and second to George Welsh), the bride of James Wilkie was an Agnes born to Andrew Dunsire and Agnes Nicol about 1785.
On her death certificate, her husband James Wilkie is described as Ploughman. Agnes was age 84, confirming 'about 1785' as date of birth. There was no analysis of the cause of death by the certifier, Robert Todd.

Agnes married Willkie, James on 1 Dec 1826. James and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: F16981B67FD84BDCBB9CB95E4169596DED0F
• Baptism: 30 Oct 1787, Methilhill, Fife, Scotland

Janet married Smith, Joseph on 2 Jun 1815 in Wemyss, Fife, Scotland. Joseph was born on 16 Mar 1783 in Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: A15211FF1D924591BDD7CD9045DF499E8474
• Baptism: 30 Oct 1787, Methil, Buckhaven, Fife, Scotland

Notes:

Twin of Janet b.30 October 1787.

Mary married Sharpe, Thomas in 1807 in Wemyss, Fife, Scotland. Thomas was born on 26 Nov 1786 in Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: F693A96BF341456DB2EDF146464F9640C4E0

Notes:

Family #51.
Coal miner. Cause of death: Bronchitis 8 days. According to the Statutory Register of Deaths Index, a Thomas Dunsire died in Wemyss in 1870, age 81.

Thomas married Willson, Margaret on 11 Oct 1811 in Wemyss, Fife, Scotland. Margaret was born on 25 Jun 1790 in Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland; died on 25 Sep 1873 in Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: FE005EE244964E7ABF5BBADF7A4868FAB72C
• Baptism: 13 Jan 1793, East Coaltown Of Wemyss, Fife, Scotland

Notes:

Date of birth in OPR index is 13 January 1793. In my original OPR transcription, 11/13 January. So 31 January in my book was probably always an error.

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• _UID: E5720EA25E94420C83D880F5A27ED0434A6E

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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]

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• _UID: 01B80877311347EBB13E403ECB5DA88D7889

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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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• _UID: B8F901B6732E44C49864F9A9459E693833E4

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• _UID: 10FDD860E2474C10B05853C7575938370B7B

Notes:

According to the Statutory Register of Deaths Index, an Ann Dunsire age 74 died in 1879 in Dysart.

Ann married Burt, Peter on 8 Aug 1830 in Wemyss, Fife, Scotland. Peter (son of Burt, John and Dunsyre, Barbara) was born on 15 Aug 1804 in Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: E1CE74F05847470BB4D4726B600DED955845

Notes:

In 1841, according to census data, Peter Dunsire [35] and Agnes Nicol [81] were living with Peter Burt [36] and Ann Burt [36] in West Coaltown. Peter Dunsire would be Ann's brother b. 25 January 1807, and Agnes Nicol their mother, b. 7 March 1762, despite arithmetical discrepancies in the given ages. There is hardly any doubt that we are seeing an unmarried Peter Dunsire living with his mother and his married sister.

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• _UID: 25EEFD08769F470EA846530DE60B23775BF4

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• _UID: 345881A68EC945BB861D0EDAF31997C80012

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• _UID: 61502E902A7541B98799ED34BDF0CFA56A9E

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• _UID: AB5DC1B7F2D84EF8868593BC3FFA18175282

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• _UID: B7F13288C2E34ECDA8AC43002F4FB96F5F5D

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• _UID: BDC7782C32D04735A65C3D2D4279634878B4

Notes:

According to the Statutory Register of Deaths Index, a Janet Dunsire age 71 died in 1888 in Beath. The age fits Janet Wilson or Dunsire, although the place of death is unexpected.

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• _UID: AE2D1189A1C445A49BD59F081B23041E3A5C

Notes:

Family #56.

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• _UID: 83E5400156574CB0AC3BFD6844750786E40B

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• _UID: 7230DA126D1D4F3794F2A87EA91668D04150

Notes:

Family #57.
Coal miner. Cause of death: Bronchitis 8 days.

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• _UID: 86EBCEE05D2945EFA1BCD867A08D1901BC9A

Notes:

Unmarried in 1861. According to the Statutory Register of Deaths Index, a Thomas Dunsire age 53 died in 1880 in Buckhaven.

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• _UID: 3FF51EE69BE0461AB534F9DCCAA493FFD196
• Alt. Birth: 23 Jan 1831; Alt. Birth

Notes:

Family #83.
The youngest son of Thomas Dunsyre and Margaret Wilson [m.11 October 1811), Robert b.1831, married Elspeth or Elisabeth Herd in 1853. Robert was a coal miner, and moved around the Fife collieries quite a bit. Their first child, Thomas, was born in Beath in 1854, the next four in Auchtertool at Little Raith colliery (although three of those died in infancy), one in Beath again, one in Ballingry, three more in Beath, and the last in Wemyss in 1873. In 1891 Robert and Elspeth, both 60, were at 44 Newtown, Kirkland; his occupation ‘General Merchant’. By 1901 Robert is a widower, retired. Scotlandspeople gives his death in 1904, age 73, in Thornton. According to the Statutory Register of Deaths Index, Elspeth died in 1891, age 60.
Thomas (b.1854), like his grandfather, married a Margaret Wilson (a plentiful clan in Fife) in 1874. Janet (b.1861 at Little Raith Colliery) married Archibald Stenhouse. Thanks to John Stenhouse, a
descendant, a family tree is available but is not presented here. The youngest son, Andrew b.1869, is
probably the miner (21) shown in 1891 as living at 83 Old Town, Kirkland, with his wife Catherine (born in
England), and two children Robert (2) and Jane R. (5mo.). This baby Robert became the Robert Dunsire
who was killed in a mining accident in British Columbia, Canada, on 30AUG1922 (information from David
Mason). There is a gravestone in East Wemyss cemetery to him, his wife Mary Cormack (d.10NOV1964
age 75), and their daughter Sarah, who died age 18 in 1936. They had five other children.
Johanna (as Joan) married James Simpson in 1891 [see under her name for a story about this].

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• _UID: 9FBF561FE0E84AE09A23AE3CB02EC0E9F35C

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Family #58.
Andrew b.1820 married Elizabeth Dryburgh in 1846. They were cousins: their mothers were sisters. He was a collier in Methilhill at his marriage, but around 1850 he and his two brothers David and Robert took their families to Lochgelly, getting jobs in iron mining there, as did two distant cousins on the 'Christian Buchan' side. They had moved back to Methilhill by 1881. According to the Statutory Register of Deaths Index, an Andrew Dunsire age 67 died 1888 in Buckhaven. The couple had nine children
- David b.1847, Walter 1849 (d.inf.), Isabella 1850, Andrew 1852, Thomas 1855, Janet 1857, Elizabeth 1859, Catherine 1862 and another Walter 1864; but spouses are known for only three of the sons, David and Andrew - two spouses each, and Walter b.1864, who m. 1896 Fanny Bruce Kinninmont. They had three children. Walter d.1912 in Buckhaven, Fanny died 1955 in Youngstown OH.
Andrew b.1897 d.1959.

Andrew married Dryburgh, Elizabeth on 5 Jun 1846 in Methilhill, Fife, Scotland. Elizabeth (daughter of Dryburgh, Walter and Mathewson, Isabel) was born on 24 Apr 1822 in Methilhill, Fife, Scotland; died in 1890 in Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 1AEB84343D3C49BA9FB741E46D254751DE0A

Notes:

Died in infancy.

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• _UID: 2AF2590684E8437F8D983CE699C4955A3CE1

Notes:

Family #59.
Thomas b.1825, married twice: Euphemia Reid, daughter of Peter Reid and Isabella Dick, in 1849; and Eliza Baird, daughter of Watson Baird and Catherine Braid, in 1857. Euphemia died in 1856, of 'strangulation' - story yet to be investigated [Mark Anderson]. Thomas had fourteen children, but only three sons: David b.1850 (m. Janet McBain), Watson b.1858 (m. Barbara ), and Thomas b.1862 (m. Catherine Smith). In 1861 the family lived in Back Row, Methilhill: Thomas (35), a coal miner, his wife Eliza (23, born in Dundee), David (11), a linen spinner, Isabella (9), also a linen spinner (that is what the census entry says), plus Janet (6), Watson (2) and Catherine (1). By 1891 Thomas and Eliza and their three youngest daughters were living in Dubbiside, with Robina and her husband John Beveridge, another coal miner, and baby Robert. According to the Statutory Register of Deaths Index, a Thomas Dunsire age 69 died in Buckhaven in 1895. At the 1901 census Eliza Dunsire (widow, 64) is living at 6 Forth Place, Innerleven (i.e. Dubbiside), with daughter Jennie (21) and her husband Duncan Smith (26, hydraulic crane driver, born Scoonie), a granddaughter Elizabeth Baird Smith (1mo.), a visitor Robert Smith (55, gardener), and two boarders, Robert Hunter (43, from Edinburgh) and Charles Moyes (20, also from Edinburgh). According to the Statutory Register of Deaths Index, an Elizabeth Dunsire age 75 died in 1913 in Buckhaven: the dates, though not the forename, fit Eliza Baird.
Watson Dunsire b.1858 was in 1891 found living in North Leith with his wife Barbara Reid, and four children: Thomas (7), Elizabeth (5), Mary Reid Sinclair (2), and a baby Catherine Reid.
Thomas Dunsire b.1862 was in 1891 a boilermaker living in Sweetbank Cottage, Links, Leven, with his wife Catherine Smith (29, born in Leith) and two children, Margaret 92) and Thomas (1). The Leith connection is suggestive but has not been researched. Catherine b.1860 married James Robertson, of Livingston, West Lothian (later Cockpen, Edinburgh) in 1883; their children were Samuel 1883, Thomas 1886, Isabella 1890, William, and Walter. Catherine (known as Kate) later ran a corner shop in College Street, Buckhaven, and was buried in East Wemyss Cemetery (d.1933).
Isabella b.1852, mill worker, spinster, 25, of Kirkland, married Robert Gardner, flaxdresser, bachelor, 23, of Innerleven Markinch, on 5 July 1877 in Kirkland after banns according to the forms of the Church of Scotland. Eliza Baird was described on the marriage certificate as 'mother' of Isabella, though her birth mother was actually Euphemia Reid.

Thomas married Reid, Euphemia on 14 May 1849 in Wemyss, Fife, Scotland. Euphemia (daughter of Reid, Peter and Dick, Isabella) was born on 4 Jul 1831 in Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland; died on 27 Apr 1856 in Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Baird, Eliza on 27 Apr 1857 in Markinch, , Fife, Scotland. Eliza was born in 1838 in Dundee, , Angus, Scotland; died in 1913 in Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 1877C03470CE439D884FE706617094E3ADAA

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Family #82.
David b.1828, the third surviving son of David and Janet Mathewson, was in 1851 living with his
brother Andrew and his wife Elizabeth Dryburgh in Lochgelly. In a neighbouring street lived James
Hugh, landlord of one of four pubs in the village, from Methil, and his wife Agnes Nicol; his daughter, also Agnes, was 16. David Dunsire and Agnes Hugh were married in 1854. They had five children: Agnes b. 1855, Janet 1857, David 1859, Ann 1864, and James 1866. David b.1828 was a coal miner, but first Agnes Hugh and then David moved into the spirits trade, following the death of her father. In 1891 David was a publican, living at 26 Mid Street, Lochgelly. He died in 1899 age 71 [confirmed by the Statutory Register of Deaths Index] ; Agnes the year before age 64. Both are buried in East Wemyss Cemetery. Agnes b.1855 married William Penman in 1875. David b.1859, a joiner, was in 1891 living at 37 Mid Street, Lochgelly with his wife Jessie (32) and children David (5), Andrew (3) and Annie (1). This young David (5) later married Mary Conway of Cowdenbeath and emigrated to Colorado.

David married Hugh, Agnes on 26 May 1854 in Auchterderran Parish, Lochgelly, , Fife, Scotland. Agnes (daughter of Hugh, James and Nicol, Agnes) was born on 12 Oct 1834 in Auchterderran Parish, Lochgelly, , Fife, Scotland; died in 1898 in Auchterderran Parish, Lochgelly, , Fife, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 71B32F67A32F43ACB552E361558C3A1EFF54
• Baptism: 23 Jan 1831, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland

Notes:

Family #62.
David/ Janet Mathewson’s fourth surviving son, Robert b.1831, a coal miner in Methilhill, married
Isabella Russell in 1858. They had two children, David b. 1860 and Catherine Mitchell b.1863. Both parents died in 1871, of some epidemic: according to the Statutory Register of Deaths Index, Robert died in Wemyss in 1871, age 40, and Isabella age 33. in the 1881 census David and Catherine appear as the adopted children of Thomas Dunsire and Catherine Anderson - Thomas being a second cousin, of the John/ Christian Buchan line. Robert’s younger brother James (b.1834) lived next door, but presumably was not in a position to take in the orphans. But in fact, Thomas’ wife Catherine was a FIRST cousin of Robert’s wife: maybe that was the more important relationship.
David b.1860, the adopted boy, married Sarah Thomson of Buckhaven in 1887. He was a butcher in East Wemyss, with a shop in Back Dykes, and then in Main Street. Later he bred pigs in Dairsie, and spent a period in Canada, They had eight children, as shown alongside. Sarah suffered from diabetes and died in 1920; David died in 1945, age 84. My informant, the late David Dunsire of East Wemyss (b.1922, d.1998), was the son of Alexander (m. Daisy Pryde), and wrote up the story in a booklet The Dunsires of Wemyss. Robert, ‘a bit of a black sheep’, died in Chicago age 76, in 1964. In East Wemyss cemetery are buried Alexander (d.1953 age 56) and his wife ‘Daisy’ Pryde (d.1982). Another stone commemorates John Russell, always known as ‘Russ’, who was a radio operator and ‘ham’, d.1968; and his sister Annie Thomson Dunsire, d.1971. David b.1922 married Catherine Ness in 1953: they had three children, Robert, David and Jennifer - now also married with their own children.

NB There were two Robert Dunsire babies christened in Wemyss on the same day, 23 January 1831. The other was the last child of Thomas Dunsire b.1790 and Margaret Wilson b.1790, m.11 October 1811.

Robert married Russell, Isabella on 8 Nov 1858 in Dysart, , Fife, Scotland. Isabella (daughter of Mitchell, Catherine) was born on 18 Feb 1838 in East Newtown, East Wemyss, , Fife, Scotland; died in 1871 in Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: E05BDBD102324AF68A5B63835728FC36D764

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Family #63.
James Dunsire and Ann Hastie married in 1865. In the 18 71 census, James (36), confusingly entered as 'Thomas' Dunsire, a Reddsman, and Ann (29), lived at 36 Back Row, Methilhill, with David (11), James (9), Ann (5), Andrew (3), and William (1). There were Dunsire families (either husband or wife) all around them.
At the 1901 census, James and his second wife, Ann Hastie, were living at 31 The Links, Buckhaven, with James (39, coalminer) from the first marriage, John (26, coal miner), and Ann Cairns (widow, 90), Ann's mother. The Statutory Register of Deaths confirms family information. William b.1869 died age 8 in 1878.
On the death certificate of James's son Andrew in 1948, James is described as James Wilkie Dunsire, Colliery Manager (deceased). It is the first time a middle name for James has been seen, and the provenance is not clear, although a grandson of his (son of Thomas) was also given the name James Wilkie Dunsire (b.1908, d.1972).

James married Mathewson, Marjorie on 25 Feb 1859 in Methil Chapel, Wemyss, Fife, Scotland. Marjorie (daughter of Mathieson, David and Hutton, Janet) was born on 16 Nov 1834 in West Wemyss, Fife, Scotland; died on 25 Jul 1863 in Methilhill, Wemyss, Fife, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Hastie, Ann on 13 Feb 1865 in Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland. Ann (daughter of Hastie, James and Cairns, Ann) was born on 8 Mar 1842 in Links, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland; died on 19 May 1923 in Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: CB9AA8CABA5F400C93403848DB6559F0182E
• Baptism: 12 Nov 1837, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland

Notes:

According to the Statutory Register of Deaths Index, a Catherine Dunsire age 76 died in 1913 in Buckhaven. This is probably Catherine Dunsire or Barker.

Catherine married Barker, Arthur on 26 Apr 1861 in Wemyss, Fife, Scotland. Arthur was born on 8 Sep 1839 in Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 75941F617B3E43F599BE06983248AA4DE09B

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Agnes' birth does not appear in IGI but she does in the 1841census, age 22, a spinner. She married Andrew Mercer, a coalminer born in Kennoway, and produced ten children, variously in Beath, Kennoway, and Auchterderran [Lochgelly]. She died 10 October 1887 in Buckhaven, age 68, of heart disease. Andrew Mercer died 22 June 1878 of heart disease, in Methilhill.
Through the courtesy of Malcolm Holt, a descendant, a detailed family tree for Andrew Mercer is available.
In the Journal of the Fife Family History Society vol.13 No.1, October 2000, in an article entitled "The Fife Kalendar", there appears the following:
KENNOWAY ... Andrew Mercer, clock and watchmaker in Kennoway, received 3 mths imp[risonment] Cupar Jail at C[upar] S[heriff] C[ourt] 1 May 1876 for assaulting his wife, Agnes Dunsire.

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• _UID: 491276943A9B4DA48BE7690DA5880965AEC0

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There are no census entries for Andrew b.1820, Alexander b.1824 or James Wilkie b.1829. It is presumed that they died in infancy.

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• _UID: 78E7AC0C7AE447558CDBF582DD5A7D9A3D0F

Notes:

According to the Statutory Register of Deaths Index, a Janet Dunsire age 58 died in Buckhaven in 1880. Janet Dunsire or Suttie is of the right age.

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• _UID: A0E3F0ABFC7C4D6088EE0883E8ABDA6819E0

Notes:

There are no census entries for Andrew b.1820, Alexander b.1824 or James Wilkie b.1829. It is presumed that they died in infancy.

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• _UID: 79D8B41DEE704A7FB52C3DE55E8F2D8FF5AD
• Baptism: 10 Sep 1826

Notes:

According to the Statutory Register of Deaths Index, a Mary Dunsire age 58 died in Buckhaven in 1886. No Mary of that precise age is found in our records, but the nearest is Mary Dunsire or Galloway #52, baptised 3 September 1826. John Galloway was a seaman in Methil.

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• _UID: B7664CC8449A4182A6B59E6B3BB92CC51BC6
• Baptism: 21 May 1829, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland

Notes:

There are no census entries for Andrew b.1820, Alexander b.1824 or James Wilkie b.1829. It is presumed that they died in infancy.

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• _UID: F8A476A2CE384B0CB6D506217C693D422767
• Baptism: 26 Jun 1831, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland

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Family #65.
Occupation on marriage certificate [courtesy Malcolm Holt]: sailor/merchant service. In 1871 census, William [39] is described as a Pilot, living in South Street, Methil; in 1891 at 86 Shore Street, Methil; by 1891 William was a Dockgate Keeper, living at 87 Harbour Head, Methil. William b.1831, a merchant seaman at his marriage and later a pilot and a dock-gate keeper at Methil, in 1862 married Catherine Guthrie. They had eight children, six of them girls: Euphemia b.1864 (m. David Eadie), Agnes 1867 (m. William Tarbett), Catherine 1868 (married, but name not known), Janet 1871 (m. John Ritchie), Margaret 1873 (m. Jens Jade), William 1875, Robert 1877, and Isabella 1880 (m. ? Ness).
In the 1901 census, Catherine [60] is living with William [25] and Isabella [20]. Also in the same enumerator district are Elizabeth [21] and Mary [17, who could be the daughters of George Dunsire and Janet Cairns #66 - very distant relatives, but actual address is not known. A Robert [24] is found in Alva, Clackmannan; nothing more known, but this family's Robert b.1877 is the only one of the right age in our data.
Thanks to Robyn Walker (NZ), Malcolm Holt, and Douglas Davis, something is known about each of them (but not given here). Sons William b.1875, and Robert b.1877, appear not to have married. William, a seaman also, is believed to have been lost at sea. Robert, according to scotlandspeople, died in Dysart age 28 in 1905.
According to his death certificate, William Dunsire, dock-gate keeper, married to Catherine Guthrie, died 16 September 1892 age 59 in Methil. The informant was George Drummond, son-in-law, of Methil. The death was registered on 17 September. This would put his year of birth as 1833, the same year as his sister Ann Burt Dunsire. There may be an error here. There was also an error in the year of death noted [source not recalled] - 20 September 1894, which has been changed to that on the death certificate.

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• _UID: C66D3E2FA4B34E84B8DA04B28810383718DA
• Baptism: 29 Sep 1833, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland

Notes:

Ann Burt Dunsire b.1833 was probably called after her aunt, who married Peter Burt in 1830. Ann was still living with her parents in Methil at the time of the April census 1861, as a Flax Worker, but she is the only IGI candidate for marriage the next year to Henry Thomson. [Confirmed by Statutory Register.]
On her death certificate, she is the widow of Henry Thomson, fisherman. She died on 10 November 1914 at 12 Lindsay Square, Methil, "age 83" [actually 81 if her date of birth in 1833 is correct]. Cause of death was 'senile decay'. Henry Thomson, son, of 14 Lindsay Avenue, Methil, registered the death on 11 November 1914 in Buckhaven.

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• _UID: 6653CB32607F46599615D2F80D40DB0CDD70
• Baptism: 16 Apr 1836, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland

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• _UID: E452076645654DB5B7F4F7A0BBAE6F62CB14
• Baptism: 29 Sep 1839, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland

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Family #67.
Andrew Keilor b.1839, the youngest son of William/Agnes McBean, married Jane McKay in 1867. The ‘Keilor’ middle name is a mystery, unless explained by the fact that a baby called Alison Jane Peter Keilor [daughter of Thomas Keilor and Elisabeth Pullar] was christened alongside Andrew. Andrew was a boilermaker, working first in Methil, then in Glasgow, and finally in Burntisland, Fife, where he died probably in 1880, since in the 1881 census Jane was a widow. They had seven children, four girls and three boys: Jane b.1867, Agnes 1869 (m. Andrew Porteous, d. in Australia, 1941), Annabella McKay 1872, d.inf., William 1874, Annabella 1976, d.1879, John 1879, Andrew 1880 (m. Jessie Stirling). Jane later married Richard Wilson and had another child, Catherine b.1887. In 1901 they lived at 11 Victoria Road, Buckhaven.
The younger Andrew b.1880, also with the Keillor middle name (but now with a double l, probably following the Dundee marmalade maker), was a miner, and married Jessie Stirling in 1913. Tragically, he was killed in action in France in 1915, a few months after the birth of their son, another Andrew Keillor, later a steelworker. He married Elizabeth Allan in 1944; and their daughter, Aileen Jane Dunsire Mortimer, is my informant.
A problem rises from a death in the Statutory Register Index, of Agnes Sturrock, 22 June 1901, at Simpson Square, Buckhaven. Said to be married or formerly married to John Sturrock, coalminer. Father Andrew Dunsire, boilermaker (deceased); mother Jane Dunsire m.s. MacKay.

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Family#70.
David b.1847, a coal miner, married Euphemia Irvine in 1871 and had
two children, Hay b.1872 and Andrew b.1874. Euphemia, tragically, died that same month. David then married Betsy Black, and had three more children, Helen [known as Bella,b.1879], Robert b.1884 in Edinburgh, and Elizabeth b.1886 in Buckhaven. In 1891 they were at 76 Back Row, Methilhill. In the 1901 census, David, Betsy, Bella, Robert and Eliza are at Main Street, West Wemyss, David a publican age 53, born in West Wemyss.
According to the Statutory Register of Deaths Index, a David Dunsire age 57 died in 1904 in Wemyss.

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• _UID: 27431845C8874F6C89BC80A5F2A943A6BFD1

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Died in infancy - name replaced.

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#58+
On her marriage certificate, Isabella is described as domestic servant, spinster, 30, of Methilhill, Wemyss. Father Andrew Dunsire, coal miner; mother Elizabeth Dunsire ms Dryburgh. The witnesses were Elizabeth Dunsire and William Duncan, probably the siblings of the bride and groom.

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Family #97.
Andrew, b.1852 in Lochgelly, married Isabella Kay in 1873. They had three children, Andrew b.1874, Isabella b.1876, and John b.1878. But then, just as with his brother David’s wife, Isabella died young, in 1879; their fourth child, Elizabeth, was born after her mother's death, but did not live long, dying in 1880. In 1881 Andrew and his young family were at 89 Pirnie Houses, Methilhill: next door at No.90 were his parents, Andrew (60) and Elizabeth Dryburgh (58). In 1880 Andrew married his brother David’s wife’s sister, Margaret Irvine, and they had four children, David 1884, James 1886, Hay 1888, and Walter 1891. In 1891 they were living at Dunsire’s Buildings, Methil. At No.40 Dunsire’s Buildings lived Walter Dunsire (26) and Elizabeth Dunsire (31), both born in Lochgelly - Andrew’s unmarried younger brother and sister. The Dunsire Buildings were owned by Andrew, and the 1901 census puts them in Methil Brae, Kirkland. At the 1901 census Andrew b.1852 and Margaret Irvine were living at Hay Cottage, Methil High Street, with John (23, coalminer hewer), David (17, draper's assistant), James (16, Tailor apprentice), and Hay (13, scholar), with a boarder, Sans Pahack (18, coalminer hewer). Listed separately but also at Hay Cottage were Andrew (26, coalminer hewer) born Haughmill, his wife Lizzie Ednie (24, born Methilhill), Lizzie (4), Maggie (2), and Isabella (8mo.), the last three born Methil.
According to his son's death certificate, Andrew b.1852 was a Publican.
Thanks to Rosemary Dunsire, Bill Dryburgh, Glenys Marra, and Skip Wishart, all descendants, we can bring the story up to date. Andrew b.1874 m. Lizzie Ednie and they had ten children: Andrew, Maggie, Bella, Chrissie, Jackie, Lizzie, twins Hay and Mima, Willie, and Nan. Andrew d. in 1942, and Lizzie 1948. Of their children, Maggie had two sons, four grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren; Andrew m. Netta Blyth, one son and one daughter; Willie m. Emma Cooper, two girls and a boy (Andrew - see under William/Emma Cooper].
An Isabella Dunsire wife of John Kinninmonth is buried in Methilmill Cemetery; this may be Isabella b.1876. David b.1884 married Liz, but had no family. James b.1885 married Lizzie Craig Horne, daughter b. 1885 of John Horne and Agnes Gillies, on 6 AUG 1908; they had four children, but only the eldest survived infancy - Agnes Gillies Dunsire b.1909 in Buckhaven. She married William Alexander Moffat in 1935; their daughter, Ealasaid Dunsire Moffat (‘Skip’, my informant), m. Col. Jack Wishart.
This leaves Walter b.1864, youngest brother of David and Andrew. He married Fanny Kinninmonth, died at 48 and is buried in Methilmill Cemetery. No family is known.

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According to the Statutory Register of Deaths Index, a Thomas Dunsire died in Auchterderran in 1856, age 0.

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• _UID: 2DCF1A997EF34E0F919390B7818B443A72F5

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According to the Statutory Register of Deaths Index, a Janet Dunsire age 30 died in Buckhaven in 1887.

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• _UID: 796E6DC844AD4C7791CBA9375423617155F0

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#58.
On her marriage certificate in 1895, Elizabeth is described as a housekeeper and spinster. The marriage was in Inverkeilor, Forfarshire, although the usual residence of both Elizabeth and her husband William Thomson is given as High Street, Methil. The witnesses were Margaret Adams and Charlotte Spalding. The Free Church Minister who performed the ceremony was John Adams.
According to the Statutory Register of Deaths Index, an Elizabeth Dunsire age 61 died in 1921 in Buckhaven. This could be Elizabeth b.26 October 1859, dau. of Andrew Dunsire and Elizabeth Dryburgh.

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• _UID: 2D9C296322DB41D399445C59E09BE63B9410

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In the Statutory Register of Marriages Index, there is a marriage of Catherine Dunsire and George Drummond in Buckhaven in 1887. The date fits Catherine b.1862, and other Catherines of the period have other spouses. But there is no supporting evidence.
There is an untraceable Catherine Dunsire in the Stat Reg Deaths Index, died 1888 age 27 in Buckhaven. It is possible that this refers to George Drummond's wife, just married in 1887.

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#58

Headstone in Methilmill Cemetery. In 1901 Walter (36, coal miner) and Fanny [29] lived at Stonebyre's Place, Methil Brae, with two children, Andrew (3) and John (1).
According to Brenda Gibb, Walter married Fanny - no idea of her surname. But this was a confusion between her relative Walter b.1873, son of Thomas Dunsire and Barbara Hutton, and this Walter Dunsire (s. of Andrew and Elizabeth Dryburgh, b.1864), as the husband of Fanny Bruce Kinninmont. Census evidence shows that her husband was the one born in 1864.
Walter was actually in 1911 the proprietor of Stonebyres Place, a property comprising ten houses (probably flats or apartments in block) and two shops, one of them occupied by Methil Co-operative Society. Other tenants were John Kinninmont and Robert Kinninmont, probably relatives of Fanny. Her brother John Kinninmont married Isabella Kay Dunsire, daughter of Walter's uncle Andrew. At the 1891 census Walter lived in Dunsire's Buildings, a property owned by his brother Andrew (m.Isabella Kay], comprising six houses and a shop. The annual value for rating purposes of Walter's properties was £123, a sizeable sum for those days - the actual rents received would probably be much higher. These coal miners were not poor people.
Following Walter's funeral on Thursday 22AUG1912, Mrs. Walter Dunsire (Fanny) inserted an anoouncement in the August 29th issue of the Leven Advertiser, thanking the R.W.M. [Right Worshipful Master], I.P.M. [Immediate Past Master] and Brothers of Lodge Cedars of Lebannon [sic] for their kindnesses.

Additional information received by email:

From: David Mason
Sent: 09 May 2011 18:45
To: johan@lauwens.com
Subject: Comments
Comments: I can give you further info on the family of Walter Dunsire,1864-1912 if you would like it. My grandmother, Euphemia Kinninmont, was a sister of Fanny Bruce Kinninmont who married Walter Dunsire. The Walter Dunsire born in 1873 died in 1875. The mother of Fanny Bruce and Euphemia Kinninmont was Fanny Dryburgh. Euphemia Kinninmont married Alexander Dunsire. See family 164 in Andrew Dunsire's web page on the Dunsire Family. My mother, Fanny Dryburgh Dunsire was born at Stoneybyre Place in 1909.

David Mason
dandlmason @ shaw.ca

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family #69.
According to the Statutory Register of Deaths Index, a David Dunsire age 30 died in Buckhaven in 1880. On his son David's birth certificate, he is a coal miner.

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• _UID: 19AF08EDE46E4B96B17372C672FAF6B86679

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According to the Statutory Register of Deaths Index, an Isabella Dunsire age 62 died in 1914 in Scoonie.
Isabella b.1852, mill worker, spinster, 25, of Kirkland, married Robert Gardner, flaxdresser, bachelor, 23, of Innerleven Markinch, on 5 July 1877 in Kirkland after banns according to the forms of the Church of Scotland. Eliza Baird was described on the marriage certificate as 'mother' of Isabella, though her birth mother was actually Euphemia Reid. Witnesses were James Gardner and Elizabeth Barclay.

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• _UID: CD26A49759304F14BE8470C3C3F5E5E00C43

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Janet appears with the family in the 1861 and 1871 censuses, but not the 1881 one. A marriage certificate for Janet b.1855 to Thomas Dunsire and Euphemia Reid gives her bridegroom as Alexander M. Sharp. Janet: mill worker, spinster, 23, usual residence Kirkland, Wemyss. Alexander: flax dresser, bachelor, 21, of Innerleven, Markinch. Thomas is stated to be a scavenger, and Euphemia deceased. The groom's father William Sharp was a general labourer, his mother Christian Sharp ms Mitchell. The wirnesses were Barbara Sharp and Watson Dunsire, the bride's half-brother.
In the Statutory Register of Deaths Index, a Janet Dunsire age 80 died in 1935 in Arbroath & St Vigeans. The #59 Janet is the only one in the data base born in 1855.

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Fam.#59
Watson Dunsire b.1858 was in 1891 found living in North Leith with his wife Barbara (maiden name Reid, Statutory Register of Marriages), and four children: Thomas (7), Elizabeth (5), Mary R.S. (2), and a baby Catherine Reid. In 1901, the family was in St Andrew parish, Edinburgh, with additions Robert [8] and Isabella [5]. Robert may have emigrated to South Africa in 1916.
According to the Statutory Register of Death Index, Watson age 73 died in 1931 in Liberton, Edinburgh.
The death certificate gives the cause of death as 'Cirrhosis of the liver, probably four years ...' The informant was Thomas Dunsire, his son.
Watson's marriage certificate gives him as a journeyman joiner, 26, of 18 Buchanan Street, Leith; Barbara a domestic servant, 29, of Hamilton Street, Portobello. The wedding was acc. to the forms of the Church of Scotland, at Red House, parish of Orwell. Witnesses Alexander Hume and Jane Reid. No explanation of why wedding was in Kinrossshire.

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• _UID: 7142A441DE924652B399ED8F0AF5CFED2331

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Headstone in East Wemyss Cemetery. Supported by Statutory Deaths Register.
In 1881 census, Catherine was listed as a factory worker, residing with her maternal grandfather Watson Baird at 111 Sandy Lane, Methil.
Catherine married James Robertson at Innerleven, Markinch parish, in 1883 [confirmed by Statutory Register]. Innerleven, sometimes called Dubbieside, was a separated part of Markinch parish, surrounded by Aberhill and Methil in Wemyss parish. It was where Catherine's parents and family were living in 1881, though not Catherine herself.
In 1891, Catherine with James Robertson and her children were living at The Links, Denbeath. Later, she ran a corner shop in College Street, Buckhaven. Kate Robertson died 26MR1933. Her youngest son, Walter ‘Wattie’ Robertson, managed East Fife F.C. to the Scottish Championship in the 1950s [information Philip West]. [No mention of Walter Robertson in Corstorphine's book.]

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• _UID: CE49C5D743894C0A87BC81A2EA9BFCF6B224

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Family #59.
Thomas Dunsire (29, a boiler-maker] was in 1891 living in Sweetbank Cottage, Links, Leven, with his wife Catherine [29, born in Leith], and two children, Margaret [2] and Thomas [1]. In 1901, these were ten years older, and accompanied by Christina and Lizzie [both 8], John [6], and Alexander [1]. According to the Statutory Register of Death Index, a Thomas Dunsire age 69 died in 1931 in Scoonie.

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According to the Statutory Register of Deaths Index, an Alison Dunsire age 66 died in 1930 in Scoonie. In the Statutory Register of Marriages Index, an Alice Dunsire married John Warrender in 1890 in Markinch - which probably means Innerleven or Dubbiside, where Alison b.1864 dau. of Thomas Dunsire and Eliza Braid and her parents were living at the time.

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• _UID: 25A16B616354458E804E9D76B8DD7E495950

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Died in infancy. Statutory Deaths Register: age 2.

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In 1891, Thomas [64], retired coal miner, and Eliza [54] were living at Links Houses, Dubbiside, with Margaret [17], Jemima [13], both flax mill workers, and Jennie [11], scholar. With them were Robina [22] and her husband John Beveridge [25], a coal miner born in Buckhaven, and their son Robert [1mo.].
According to the Statutory Register of Death Index, Robina Dunsire age 62 died in 1931 in Scoonie.

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• _UID: E1B2F9EE0B6B4087805EC8ADEAD56E235A57

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In the Statutory Register of Marriages Index, Agnes Dunsire married John Sturrock in 1897 in Wemyss. The date fits this Agnes, but there is no clinching evidence.
In fact, A problem rises from a death in the Statutory Register Index, of Agnes Sturrock, 22 June 1901, at Simpson Square, Buckhaven. Said to be married or formerly married to John Sturrock, coalminer. Father Andrew Dunsire, boilermaker (deceased); mother Jane Dunsire m.s. MacKay. It may be that Andrew Porteous was this Agnes' husband. The record needs to be changed.

Family/Spouse: Porteous, Andrew. Andrew was born est 1870; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 6909DB8220C64B8A9B837130D02816DD3439

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Statutory Deaths Register Index: age 0.

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According to her death certificate, Margaret died 6 January 1947 at 24 High Street, Methil, age 73. Cause of death, Enteritis, certified by A.B. Morrison. The informant was James Shepherd, son, of 306 Methilhaven Road, Methil, on 7 January 1947, at Methil.

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• _UID: A9BE484C4DC14650AB6F4D3FD08DBF2788E7

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According to the Statutory Registers of Births and Deaths, an Eliza
Dunsire was born in Buckhaven in 1876, and died there the same year. This may well have been a third attempt by Thomas and Eliza to name a child Eliza. However, a child Douglas Finlay Dunsire was born in 1923 (GROS index), and a Douglas Finlay Dunsire died age 28 in 1952. On the death certificate the mother is given as Eliz.Baird Dunsire, but no father is named. It looks as if Douglas Finlay Dunsire was the child of one of the grandchildren of Eliza Baird b. 1838 d.1913, but we do not have enough information to say which. An Elizabeth Baird Dunsire was born to Watson Dunsire and Barbara Reid in 1886 in Leith North. A person of the same name died in St Bernard, Edinburgh, in 1923. This is likely to be the Fam#59+ Elizabeth, whose mother Barbara died in St Bernard the following year. It is too much of a jump to conclude that Elizabeth died of puerperal fever or the like, though the child survived; but it is a possibility.

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• _UID: EA76917968164D3DA112591A97B62B6272EA

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According to the Statutory Register of Deaths Index, a Jemima Dunsire age 66 died in 1944 in Buckhaven. In the Statutory Register of Marriages Index, a Jemima Dunsire m. Thomas Brown Gordon in Buckhaven, 1899.
According to the marriage certificate: flax mill worker, spinster, 22, 6 Forth Place, Innerleven, Wemyss. Thomas Dunsire, general labourer, deceased; Elizabeth Dunsire ms Baird. Witnesses: Jane Dunsire, William Gordon. According to the forms of the Baptist Church.

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• _UID: 572B6A9F5F9B408D8C43A13EC445C0E5AEDB

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Appears in Statutory Births Register as Jean, on her marriage certificate as Jane, and on death certificate as Jeanie. At her death, she was married to Duncan Smith, railway crossing gateman, her residence 25 [0r 251] Peden Cottages, Crossroads, Methil. Cause of death was 'cerebral softening', certified by G.A.H.Gunley.

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• _UID: 4C6824924F154E119EC0D5ED98A0BEF639FB

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According to the Statutory Register of Deaths Index, an Agnes Dunsire age 61 died in 1916 in Dunfermline. The marriage details are confirmed in the Statutory Register of Marriages Index.

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• _UID: CB1AE4AE691A4C77A9623FD04B47DC6DB25B

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According to the Statutory Register of Deaths Index, a Janet Dunsire age 20 died in Auchterderran in 1878. This could be this Janet [Fam#82], b.05 May 1857.

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• _UID: 9B8C2FF451E844139C5031BF3F0DF03C2E21

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Family #106.
David b.1859, a joiner, was in 1891 living at 37 Mid Street, Lochgelly with his wife Jessie (32) and children David (5), Andrew (3) and Annie (1). There is, however, no corresponding marriage listed in the STAT REG index, but the birth certificates of the fourth child, Agnes Hugh, 1894, and the fifth, Elizabeth, in 1896, gives the date of the marriage as 15 January 1885, in Methven. The young David (5) later married Mary Conway of Cowdenbeath and emigrated to Colorado.
In the 1901 census, David is missing and Jessie [42] is head. There is only one entry in the Statutory Register of Deaths index for a David born in 1859, died in Buckhaven in 1894; but this could not have been David the joiner of Lochgelly, given that his daughter Elizabeth was born in Kirkcaldy in 1896. There is in the 1901 household an Elizabeth [30], who is not easy to place: the only Elizabeth Dunsire born in 1870/71 is Elizabeth Brown Dunsire, daughter of John Dunsire and Janet Brown (#84], a quite distant connection except for the Auchterderran [Lochgelly] link. Elizabeth may therefore be the wife of a Dunsire, possibly David's brother James, about whom nothing is yet known, except a marriage in the Statutory Marriages Register Index of a James Dunsire to Elizabeth Reid in 1892. The marriage certificate confirms these guesses. As well as young David, Andrew and Annie, the household contains Agnes [8], David [7], Jessie [6], and Lizzie [4]. This second David and Lizzie may belong to Elizabeth rather than Jessie. [See under James b.1866.]

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• _UID: 0C00C2F594314E22B662581D6A7DAFB2CD44

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According to the Statutory Register of Deaths Index, an Annie Dunsire age 62 died in 1926 in Windygates. Ann b.1864 is the only person in the database who corresponds, though no more is known.
It may be significant that both her assumed parents are buried in East Wemyss cemetery, though they lived in Lochgelly.

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• _UID: 8ECD1E94644E42EB99CBBE3FA4822DF19151

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#82
James Dunsire, age 26, 26 Mid Street, Lochgelly, Journeyman Tailor.
The marriage was conjectural, arising out of the 1901 census entry for the family of James' brother David [b.1859] in Auchterderran (Lochgelly), which shows a mystery 'Elizabeth, 30', and four children under ten - Agnes [8], David [7], Jessie [6] and Lizzie [4]. Agnes, Jessie and Lizzie were David's; the second David [7] [there already was a David age 15] indicates a different family, probably headed by Elizabeth. In the Statutory Register there is a marriage in 1892 between James Dunsire and Elizabeth Reid, which although it took place in Kingsbarns (rather far from Lochgelly) otherwise fits the known facts; the marriage certificate confirms the guess. One of the witnesses was David Penman, probably brother of his sister's husband William Penman. Also in the Statutory Registers is the death of a James Dunsire in St Giles, Edinburgh in 1898, age 36. This death would explain why the household in Lochgelly did not include James in the 1901 census, but not why it did not include David.

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• _UID: 907BE47261F146EE8CF1A1FB256F18A14DCE

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Family #75.
Adopted by Thomas Dunsire b.12 May 1833 and Catherine Anderson b.9 November 1832 m. 12 January 1852, after death of parents in 1871. Census evidence.
David b.1860, the adopted boy, married Sarah Thomson of Buckhaven in 1887. He was a butcher in East Wemyss, with a shop in Back Dykes [1901 census], and then in Main Street. Later he bred pigs in Dairsie, and spent a period in Canada, They had eight children, Robert [12 in 1901], Catherine [11], Isabella [9], Sarah [7], Alex [4], David [2], John Russell [0], and Annie Thomson Dunsire [b.1903 . Sarah suffered from diabetes and died in 1920; David died in 1945, age 84 [supported by Statutory Deaths Register]. My informant, the late David Dunsire of East Wemyss (b.1922, d.1998), was the son of Alexander (m. Daisy Pryde), and wrote up the story in a booklet The Dunsires of Wemyss. Robert, ‘a bit of a black sheep’, died in Chicago age 76, in 1964. In East Wemyss cemetery are buried Alexander (d.1953 age 56) and his wife ‘Daisy’ Pryde (d.1982). Another stone commemorates John Russell, always known as ‘Russ’, who was a radio operator and ‘ham’, d.1968; and his sister Annie Thomson Dunsire, d.1971. David b.1922 married Catherine Ness in 1953: they had three children, Robert, David and Jennifer - now also married with their own children.
John Russell Dunsire age 18 entered USA in 1918 [Ellis Island records].

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Adopted by Thomas Dunsire b.12 May 1833 and Catherine Anderson b.9 November 1832 m. 12 January
852, after death of parents in 1871. Census evidence.
According to the Statutory Register of Deaths Index, a Catherine Dunsire age 72 died in 1935 in Scoonie. This could well be Catherine Mitchell Dunsire.
In the Statutory Register of Marriages Index, a marriage between Catherine Dunsire and William Hunter, 1883 in Buckhaven. The adopted Catherine is the only one in the database of the right age [20] and not married, though there is no other evidence. Superceded by marriage certificate for "Kate" Dunsire with James Logie, 11 October 1887.

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• _UID: D675DC413B2A4FBE93DF134113F7E360EDA5

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#110.
David and James Dunsire, children of Mary Mathieson or Dunsire, were mentioned in the Will of David Mathieson dated 23 March 1877, their grandfather.

David Dunsire was a general labourer when he married in about 1883. In 1891 he and Christine lived at 147 High Street, Methil. He died in 1894 [STAT REG DEATH Index], and in 1898 Christine married again, to William Campbell, a widower with several children.

David married Thomson, Christina in 1883. Christina (daughter of Thomson, James and Mathieson, May) was born on 28 Nov 1865; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: C8A8C3A71E184CCDA81A1D79139CED547169

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According to family tradition, James never married. According to the Statutory Register of Deaths Index, a James Dunsire died 1862 in Wemyss, but no age is given. Another entry has a James Dunsire age 56 dying in 1918 in Buckhaven, which seems more likely.

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• _UID: 5DA71A1D805C4DBCA77510FF548E38DE431E

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In the Statutory Register of Marriages Index, Ann Dunsire married Robert Robertson in 1889 in St George's, Edinburgh.

Ann married Robertson, Robert "Bob" "Bob" in 1889 in St George's Parish, Edinburgh, Scotland. Robert and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: B6A9282162F74E4CB4D01838395D25E61034

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#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.

Andrew married Cook, Mary Black on 5 Dec 1890 in Links, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland. Mary (daughter of Cook, David Watters and Smith, Alison) was born on 2 Mar 1868 in Methilhill, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland; died on 12 Oct 1901 in Outtrim, , Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Andrew married Dewar, Jane on 18 Dec 1902 in Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland. Jane (daughter of Dewar, Alexander and Muckersie, Janet) was born in 1867; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Andrew married Smith, Marion Mackie "Minnie" "Minnie" on 6 Oct 1910 in Register Office, Blackburn, , Lancashire, England. Marion (daughter of Smith, Andrew and Livingstone, Catherine) was born on 13 Mar 1874 in Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland; died in 1927 in Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 140F9DFE9DEC4447B8F11C1AC764DC21D9E6

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Died young, age 8, in 1878 [Statutory Register]. Appears in 1871 census but not in 1881.

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• _UID: AEC738273FDF4EB883309CCEFCB435A8A2D5

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In the Statutory Register of Marriages Index, Janet Dunsire married Thomas Walker in 18943 in Buckhaven. All but the date is known from family information.

Janet married Walker, Thomas in 1894 in Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland. Thomas and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 4A6D1F95B7D14B59BFFFF138FEA402AFD12A

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#112

According to the Statutory Register of Deaths Index, a John Dunsire age 58 died in 1933 in Buckhaven. This was the husband b.1874 of Sarah Foster and father of Jim b.1904, who married a Canadian girl Florrie Stevens. While they were on a visit home in 1933 John died of a heart attack, and Jim and Florrie stayed on with Sarah at the house at 18 Alison Street, Buckhaven. John is buried in East Wemyss cemetery.
According to his greatgrandson Jim Rankin, John was Scottish lawn bowls champion in 1912. Supported by a studio photograph, Glasgow 10 August 1912.
Leven Advertiser, 15AUG1912, p.7. "THE WORLD OF SPORT. Bowling Triumph. Mr. John Dunsire wins Single-Handed Scottish Championship.
"On Saturday, Mr. John Dunsire won the Scottish Championship on Queen's Park Green, defeating Mr. Andrew Carmichael, Falkirk, in the final by 21 shots to 10. Along with the championship is a purse of £20, and the possession of the Rosebery Cup for one year.
"Mr Dunsire qualified as the county representative in defating Mr. H. G. Smith, Cowdenbeath, by 21 to 16, and journeyed on Friday to Glasgow to take part in the closing stages of the competition for this much coveted trophy.
"He had four ties to play, and in masterly fashion easily accounted for his opponents, except in the second round, when he had a tough tussle against Mr. John A. Macmillan, Dumbarton, winning the tie by the narrow margin of one shot.
"The spectators watched the play with feverish interest, and were convinced that it was one of the finest exhibitions of bowling ever witnessed on the green.
"Having made such a fight for the Cup that day, the Club and officials were confident that nothing else but the top of the tree would satisfy their favourite, and on Saturday Mr W.Nicol, the President, and Mr.Alex Birrell, the Secretary, left for Glasgow in the certain hope of bringing home the Cup, so sure were they that nothing could stem the tide of victory.
"It was a most popular win, as the thunderous applause from two thousand spectators testified when the trophy was handed to the champion.
"In replying on behalf of the winner, Mr Nicol said that after 18 years Fife had been fly enough to win the Cup at last, and meant to be fly enough to keep it. Judging from the cheering which permeated Mr.Nicol's remarks, Fife seemed to be strongly represented in the crowd.
At Buckhaven, things immediately began to take shape on the wire from the President announcing the victory, and asking the Town Band to turn out. ... ... "
A special tramcar was despatched to meet the Glasgow train at Kirkcaldy. The champion's party was there entertained in the Station Hotel by a prominent Kirkcaldy bowler, before making the journey to Buckhaven, where the tramcar was met by a horse-brake ('lit up by a powerful lamp'). Mr. Dunsire was shouldered to the brake, which was then pulled by 'the strong arms of stalwart fellows', the procession headed by the band, parading by Lawrence Street and Randolph Street to the Free Gardeners Hall.
The Hall, packed to the doors, was the scene of the final celebration of the night, with many speeches and much singing, until the Town Band brought the proceedings to a close with the National Anthem.

This account in the Leven Advertiser was followed, for enthusiasts,
by a longer one detailing every 'end' in the final match, with appraising commentary.

John married Foster, Sarah on 20 Dec 1901 in Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland. Sarah (daughter of Foster, James and McKenzie, Christian) was born in 1877 in Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland; died on 7 Dec 1957 in Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family #113 The fourth son of James and Ann Hastie was Thomas b.1876. In 1900 he married Christina Rodgers Bell, and they had two sons Robert and James Wilkie. At the 1901 census, Thomas and Christina lived at 80 Randolph Street, Buckhaven. James Wilkie Dunsire married Evelyn Mitchell Louden in 1934 in Kirkcaldy, and had Ian (m., 2 children, Graeme and Emma), and Norma Christine (m. William Adam, two children Gwen and Chris. Chris and Kevin have Natasha Louise). James ran the Inchview Guest House in Burntisland for some years. Thomas died in Kirkcaldy in 1953 [confirmed by Stat Reg Death Index], and James Wilkie Dunsire in 1972.

Thomas married Bell, Christina Rodgers in 1900 in Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland. Christina was born on 20 Feb 1879 in Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland; died in 1946 in Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Annie in 1891 was (25) a net factory worker. In the 1901 census she is described as Annie Gibson, Married, 34, living with her parents at 17 James Street, Buckhaven. Also with them is James Gibson, 3, described as 'adopted grandson' (of Arthur Barker, the head of household).

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Unmarried (19) at the 1891 census (at 209 Links, Buckhaven), John by 1901was already a widower, living with his parents at 17 James Street, Buckhaven.

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Isabella married Cook, John in 1894 in Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland. John (son of Cook, David Watters and Smith, Alison) was born on 6 Nov 1874 in Methilhill, Fife, Scotland; died on 17 Apr 1958 in Southend, , Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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