Andrew Dunsire^{[1, 2]}

1867 - 1948  (80 years)

• Name	Andrew Dunsire
  Birth	23 Nov 1867	Links, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  _UID	B6A9282162F74E4CB4D01838395D25E61034
  Death	21 Jan 1948	Newport-On-Tay, Fife, Scotland
  Person ID	I3655	The Maw Family Tree
  Last Modified	25 Oct 2017

  
  

  Father	James Dunsire,   b. 17 Nov 1834, Methilhill, Wemyss, Fife, Scotland d. 10 Feb 1912, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland (Age 77 years)
  Mother	Ann Hastie,   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
  Family ID	F1161	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Mary Black Cook,   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
  Children	1. James Dunsire,   b. 1891, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland d. 27 Aug 1953, Crail, , Fife, Scotland (Age 62 years)   2. David Waters Cook Dunsire,   b. 31 Jul 1893, Links, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland d. 1894, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland (Age 0 years)   3. Andrew Dunsire,   b. 9 Dec 1895, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland d. 1964 (Age 68 years)   4. Alison Robertson Smith Cook Dunsire,   b. 1897, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland d. 1952, George Square, Edinburgh, , Midlothian, Scotland (Age 55 years)   5. William Hastie Cook Dunsire,   b. 16 Oct 1899, Outtrim, , Victoria, Australia d. 8 Jul 1960, Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland (Age 60 years)   6. John Smith Dunsire,   b. 1901, Outtrim, , Victoria, Australia d. 1901, Outtrim, , Victoria, Australia (Age 0 years)
  Family ID	F1160	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Oct 2017

  
  

  Family 2	Jane Dewar,   b. 1867   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	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.
  _STAT	Divorced
  Family ID	F1165	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Oct 2017

  
  

  Family 3	Marion Mackie "Minnie" Smith,   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
  Children	1. Catherine Livingstone Dunsire,   b. 10 Aug 1911, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland d. 26 Nov 1997, Loanhead, , Midlothian, Scotland (Age 86 years)   2. John Dunsire,   b. 9 Sep 1912, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland d. 4 Sep 1997, Bulawayo, , Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe (Age 84 years)
  Family ID	F1167	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Oct 2017

  
  

• 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.