Agnes McBean^[1]

Abt 1789 - 1867  (78 years)

• Name	Agnes McBean
  Birth	Abt 1789	Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland
  Gender	Female
  _UID	7375BA08E42A41919E5BE44F87573CFDCDA6
  Death	7 Apr 1867	Methil, Buckhaven, Fife, Scotland
  Person ID	I4180	The Maw Family Tree
  Last Modified	25 Oct 2017

  
  

  Family	William Dunsire,   b. 8 Jan 1798, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland d. 3 Sep 1864, Methil, Buckhaven, Fife, Scotland (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	24 Jul 1818	Wemyss, Fife, Scotland
  Children	1. Agnes Dunsire,   b. 1819, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland d. 10 Oct 1887, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland (Age 68 years)   2. Andrew Dunsire,   b. 12 Sep 1820, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland d. Yes, date unknown   3. Janet Dunsire,   b. 10 Jul 1822, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland d. 1880, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland (Age 57 years)   4. Alexander Dunsire,   b. 4 Dec 1824, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland d. Yes, date unknown   5. Mary Dunsire,   b. 3 Sep 1826, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland d. 16 Feb 1886, Methil, Buckhaven, Fife, Scotland (Age 59 years)   6. James Wilkie Dunsire,   b. 15 May 1829, Methilhill, Fife, Scotland d. Yes, date unknown   7. William Dunsire,   b. 13 Jun 1831, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland d. 16 Sep 1892, Methil, Buckhaven, Fife, Scotland (Age 61 years)   8. Ann Burt Dunsire,   b. 22 Aug 1833, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland d. 10 Nov 1914, 21 Lindsay Square, Methil, , Five, Scotland (Age 81 years)   9. Margaret Dunsire,   b. 18 Mar 1836, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland d. 1876, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland (Age 39 years)   10. Andrew Keilor Dunsire,   b. 28 Jul 1839, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland d. Abt 1880, Burntisland, , Fife, Scotland (Age 40 years)
  Family ID	F1338	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Oct 2017

  
  

• Notes

  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. 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 died 3 September 1864, of asthma. Agnes died 7 April 1867, also in Methil, cause obscure.

  
  

• Sources

  [S23] Andrew Dunsire, Andrew Dunsire.