Thomas Dunsire^[1]

1825 - 1895  (69 years)

• Name	Thomas Dunsire
  Birth	4 Sep 1825	Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  _UID	2AF2590684E8437F8D983CE699C4955A3CE1
  Death	1895	Innerleven, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland
  Person ID	I4373	The Maw Family Tree
  Last Modified	25 Oct 2017

  
  

  Father	David Dunsire,   b. 11 Jan 1795, Methilhill, Wemyss, Fife, Scotland d. 1877, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland (Age 81 years)
  Mother	Janet Mathewson,   b. 17 Feb 1799, West Wemyss, Fife, Scotland d. 2 Jul 1859, Methilhill, Wemyss, Fife, Scotland (Age 60 years)
  Marriage	30 Jul 1819	West Wemyss, Fife, Scotland
  Family ID	F1195	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Euphemia Reid,   b. 4 Jul 1831, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland d. 27 Apr 1856, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland (Age 24 years)
  Marriage	14 May 1849	Wemyss, Fife, Scotland
  Children	1. David Dunsire,   b. 7 Apr 1850, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland d. 1880, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland (Age 29 years)   2. Isabella Dunsire,   b. 11 Mar 1852   d. 1914, Scoonie, Fife, Scotland (Age 61 years)   3. Janet Dunsire,   b. 4 Jan 1855   d. 1935, Arbroath, , Angus, Scotland (Age 79 years)
  Family ID	F1326	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Oct 2017

  
  

  Family 2	Eliza Baird,   b. 1838, Dundee, , Angus, Scotland d. 1913, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	27 Apr 1857	Markinch, , Fife, Scotland
  Children	1. Watson Dunsire,   b. 15 Sep 1858, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland d. 11 Jul 1931, Liberton, , Midlothian, Scotland (Age 72 years)   2. Catharine Dunsire,   b. 11 Feb 1860, Methil, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland d. 26 Mar 1933, Wemyss, Fife, Scotland (Age 73 years)   3. Thomas Dunsire,   b. 29 Mar 1862, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland d. 1931, Scoonie, Fife, Scotland (Age 68 years)   4. Alison Dunsire,   b. 17 May 1864   d. 1930, Scoonie, Fife, Scotland (Age 65 years)   5. Eliza Dunsire,   b. 25 May 1866   d. 1867, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland (Age 0 years)   6. Robina Dunsire,   b. 5 Dec 1868, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland d. 1931, Scoonie, Fife, Scotland (Age 62 years)   7. Agnes Dunsire,   b. 3 Jan 1871   d. 1941, , , New South Wales, Australia (Age 69 years)   8. Eliza Dunsire,   b. 4 Nov 1872   d. 1872, Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland   9. Margaret Dunsire,   b. 1 Dec 1873   d. 6 Jan 1947, 24 High Street, Methil, , Five, Scotland (Age 73 years)   10. Eliza Dunsire,   b. 1876   d. 1876, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland (Age 0 years)   11. Jemima Dunsire,   b. 1877, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland d. 1944, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland (Age 67 years)   12. Jennie Dunsire,   b. 1879, Scoonie, Fife, Scotland d. 4 Nov 1947, 64 Leys Park Road, Dunfermline, , Five, Scotland (Age 68 years)
  Family ID	F1328	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Oct 2017

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S23] Andrew Dunsire, Andrew Dunsire.