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Dunsire, Walter[1]
1864 - 1912 (48 years) 
Has 26 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
Set As Default Person 
Est 1745 - Yes, date unknown-
Relationship 
with Living Birth 28 May 1864 Auchterderran, , Fife, Scotland 
Gender Male _UID 978907683DED4E03AD56837D36FCF30C3E56 Death 20 Aug 1912 Methilhill, Fife, Scotland Patriarch & Matriarch 
Dunsyre, Andrew
b. Abt 1635, ?
d. Unknown, ? (5 x Great Grandfather) 
Brown, Janet
b. Est 1745
d. Yes, date unknown (2 x Great Grandmother)Headstones 
Submit Headstone Photo Person ID I4117 The Family Maw Last Modified 25 Oct 2017
Father 
Dunsire, Andrew
b. 29 Oct 1820
d. 1888, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland (Age 67 years) Mother Dryburgh, Elizabeth
b. 24 Apr 1822, Methilhill, Fife, Scotland
d. 1890, Buckhaven, , Fife, Scotland (Age 67 years) Marriage 5 Jun 1846 Methilhill, Fife, Scotland Age at Marriage He : 25 years and 8 months - She : 24 years and 2 months. Family ID F1320 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Living Family ID F11691 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 25 Oct 2017
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Birth - 28 May 1864 - Auchterderran, , Fife, Scotland 
Death - 20 Aug 1912 - Methilhill, Fife, Scotland = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
Notes - #58
Headstone in Methilmill Cemetery. In 1901 Walter (36, coal miner) and Fanny [29] lived at Stonebyre's Place, Methil Brae, with two children, Andrew (3) and John (1).
According to Brenda Gibb, Walter married Fanny - no idea of her surname. But this was a confusion between her relative Walter b.1873, son of Thomas Dunsire and Barbara Hutton, and this Walter Dunsire (s. of Andrew and Elizabeth Dryburgh, b.1864), as the husband of Fanny Bruce Kinninmont. Census evidence shows that her husband was the one born in 1864.
Walter was actually in 1911 the proprietor of Stonebyres Place, a property comprising ten houses (probably flats or apartments in block) and two shops, one of them occupied by Methil Co-operative Society. Other tenants were John Kinninmont and Robert Kinninmont, probably relatives of Fanny. Her brother John Kinninmont married Isabella Kay Dunsire, daughter of Walter's uncle Andrew. At the 1891 census Walter lived in Dunsire's Buildings, a property owned by his brother Andrew (m.Isabella Kay], comprising six houses and a shop. The annual value for rating purposes of Walter's properties was £123, a sizeable sum for those days - the actual rents received would probably be much higher. These coal miners were not poor people.
Following Walter's funeral on Thursday 22AUG1912, Mrs. Walter Dunsire (Fanny) inserted an anoouncement in the August 29th issue of the Leven Advertiser, thanking the R.W.M. [Right Worshipful Master], I.P.M. [Immediate Past Master] and Brothers of Lodge Cedars of Lebannon [sic] for their kindnesses.
Additional information received by email:
From: David Mason
Sent: 09 May 2011 18:45
To: johan@lauwens.com
Subject: Comments
Comments: I can give you further info on the family of Walter Dunsire,1864-1912 if you would like it. My grandmother, Euphemia Kinninmont, was a sister of Fanny Bruce Kinninmont who married Walter Dunsire. The Walter Dunsire born in 1873 died in 1875. The mother of Fanny Bruce and Euphemia Kinninmont was Fanny Dryburgh. Euphemia Kinninmont married Alexander Dunsire. See family 164 in Andrew Dunsire's web page on the Dunsire Family. My mother, Fanny Dryburgh Dunsire was born at Stoneybyre Place in 1909.
David Mason
dandlmason @ shaw.ca
Sources - [S23] Andrew Dunsire, Andrew Dunsire.