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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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1860 - 1945 (84 years)