Dunsire, David[1]

Male 1860 - 1945  (84 years)      Has 25 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.


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    Birth 18 Feb 1860  Methilhill, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    _UID 907BE47261F146EE8CF1A1FB256F18A14DCE 
    Death 9 Jan 1945  Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Patriarch & Matriarch
    Dunsyre, Andrew
              b. Abt 1635, ? Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. Unknown, ? Find all individuals with events at this location  (5 x Great Grandfather) 
    Mitchell, Catherine
              b. 12 Jan 1806, Dysart,, Fife, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. Yes, date unknown  (Grandmother) 
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    Person ID I4164  The Family Maw
    Last Modified 25 Oct 2017 

    Father Ancestors Dunsire, Robert
              b. 18 Nov 1830, Coaltown Of Wemyss, , Fife, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 1871, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 40 years) 
    Mother Ancestors Russell, Isabella
              b. 18 Feb 1838, East Newtown, East Wemyss, , Fife, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 1871, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 32 years) 
    Marriage 8 Nov 1858  Dysart, , Fife, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Age at Marriage He : 28 years - She : 20 years and 9 months. 
    Family ID F1333  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Notes 
    • 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].

  • Sources 
    1. [S23] Andrew Dunsire, Andrew Dunsire.