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Personal data Andrew Keiller Dunsire 

Sources 1, 2

Household of Andrew Keiller Dunsire

He is married to Jessie Stirling.

They got married on November 21, 1913 at College Street, Buckhaven, Fife, Scotland, he was 33 years old.Source 4

1913 DUNSIRE, ANDREW KEILLER, JESSIE STIRLING (Statutory registers Marriages 459/2 89)
Marriages in the District of Buckhaven in the County of Fife 1913.
1913 Twenty first November
College Street, Buckhaven
After Publication according to the Forms of the Baptist Church.
(Signed)
Andrew Keiller Dunsire.
Coal Miner (Bachelor) 19
Age 33. 19 Lawrence Street, Buckhaven
Parents: Andrew Keiller Dunsire
Boilermaker (Deceased)
Jane Dunsire M.S. McKay (Deceased)
(Signed)
Jessie Stirling
Flax Mill Worker (Spinster)
Age 26. Kirkland Hall, Wemyss
Parents: Archibald Stirling
Coal Miner (Deceased)
Helen Stirling M.S. Mortimer
(Signed)
D Melville Simpson.
Baptist Minister
(Signed)
John Dunsire, Witness.
Jeanet Oliver, Witness
Registered 1913 November 25.
Buckhaven
David M. Pryde Registrar

Child(ren):

  1. (Not public)

Event (Witness at Marriage) on November 21, 1913 in College Street, Buckhaven, Fife, Scotland : John Dunsire, Jeanet Oliver.Source 4


Notes about Andrew Keiller Dunsire

1. Andrew K Dunsire
Birth: 27 Apr 1880 Burntisland, Fife, Scotland
Death: 19 Dec 1915 (aged 35) France
Burial: Methilmill Cemetery, Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland
Memorial #: 119137989
Bio: ANDREW K. DUNSIRE killed in action 19th December 1915 aged 35 years
Inscription: In memory of my grandmother JESSIE STIRLING died 11th March 1970 aged 83 years; also my grandfather ANDREW K. DUNSIRE killed in action 19th December 1915 aged 35 years and my great-grandmother HELEN STIRLING died 6th (8th) May 1923 aged 79 years
Family Members
Spouse: Jessie Stirling Dunsire, Unknown 1887-1970
Created by: Memorium (47853990)
Added: 22 Oct 2013
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/119137989/andrew-k-dunsire
Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed 29 November 2020), memorial page for Andrew K Dunsire (27 Apr 1880-19 Dec 1915), Find a Grave Memorial no. 119137989, citing Methilmill Cemetery, Methil, Fife, Scotland; Maintained by Memorium (contributor 47853990) .

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Andrew Keiller Dunsire
1880-1915

1913

Jessie Stirling
1887-1970

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Sources

  1. British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920 [Ancestry.com], Record for Andrew Dunsire 136789 Ancestry.com. British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. Original data: Army Medal Office. WWI Medal Index Cards. In the care of The Western Front Association website.
    Record for Andrew Dunsire
    Name: Andrew Dunsire
    Regiment or Corps: Royal Engineers
    Regimental Number: 136789
  2. UK, WWI Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923, Ancestry.com, Record for Jessie Dunsire UK, WWI Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923 Western Front Association; London, England; Pension Record Cards; Reference: 065/0284/DUN-DUR Ancestry.com. UK, WWI Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2018.
    Record for Jessie Dunsire
    Name: Jessie Dunsire
    Gender: Female
    Birth Date: 5 Mar 1887
    Residence Place: Methil Fife.
    Relation to Soldier: Widow
    Title: Pension Record Cards
    Description: Other Ranks Died Dunne T-Durrans J
    Next of Kin: Name: Relation to Soldier
    Andrew Dunsire
    Jessie Dunsire Widow
    Andrew Keillor Child

    Name: Andrew Dunsire
    Gender: Male
    Rank: Sapper
    Record Type: Card
    Death Date: 19 Dec 1915
    Service Number: 136489
    Corps, Regiment or Unit: ( 172nd Cy) R. E
    Title: Pension Record Cards
    Description: Other Ranks Died Dunne T-Durrans J
    Reference Number: 1/APW/5645
    Next of Kin:
    Name Relation to Soldier
    Andrew Dunsire
    Jessie Dunsire Widow
    Andrew Keillor Child
    / Ancestry.com
  3. Findagrave, ANDREW K DUNSIRE Birth: 27 Apr 1880 Burntisland, Fife, Scotland Death: 19 Dec 1915 (aged 35) France Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 26 May 2020), memorial page for Andrew K Dunsire (27 Apr 1880–19 Dec 1915), Find a Grave Memorial no. 119137989, citing Methilmill Cemetery, Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland ; Maintained by Memorium (contributor 47853990) .
    Andrew K Dunsire
    Birth: 27 Apr 1880 Burntisland, Fife, Scotland
    Death: 19 Dec 1915 (aged 35) France
    Burial: Methilmill Cemetery, Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland
    Memorial #: 119137989
    Bio: ANDREW K. DUNSIRE killed in action 19th December 1915 aged 35 years
    Inscription: In memory of my grandmother JESSIE STIRLING died 11th March 1970 aged 83 years; also my grandfather ANDREW K. DUNSIRE killed in action 19th December 1915 aged 35 years and my great-grandmother HELEN STIRLING died 6th May 1923 aged 79 years
    Family Members
    Spouse
    Jessie Stirling Dunsire Unknown-1970
    Created by: Memorium (47853990)
    Added: 22 Oct 2013
    URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/119137989/andrew-k-dunsire#
    Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 26 May 2020), memorial page for Andrew K Dunsire (27 Apr 1880–19 Dec 1915), Find a Grave Memorial no. 119137989, citing Methilmill Cemetery, Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland ; Maintained by Memorium (contributor 47853990) .
  4. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Marriages (from 1855), 1913 DUNSIRE, ANDREW KEILLER, JESSIE STIRLING (Statutory registers Marriages 459/2 89)
    1913 DUNSIRE, ANDREW KEILLER, JESSIE STIRLING (Statutory registers Marriages 459/2 89)
    Marriages in the District of Buckhaven in the County of Fife 1913.
    1913 Twenty first November
    College Street, Buckhaven
    After Publication according to the Forms of the Baptist Church.
    (Signed)
    Andrew Keiller Dunsire.
    Coal Miner (Bachelor) 19
    Age 33. 19 Lawrence Street, Buckhaven
    Parents: Andrew Keiller Dunsire
    Boilermaker (Deceased)
    Jane Dunsire M.S. McKay (Deceased)
    (Signed)
    Jessie Stirling
    Flax Mill Worker (Spinster)
    Age 26. Kirkland Hall, Wemyss
    Parents: Archibald Stirling
    Coal Miner (Deceased)
    Helen Stirling M.S. Mortimer
    (Signed)
    D Melville Simpson.
    Baptist Minister
    (Signed)
    John Dunsire, Witness.
    Jeanet Oliver, Witness
    Registered 1913 November 25.
    Buckhaven
    David M. Pryde Registrar
  5. Commonwealth Graves Commision, DUNSIRE, ANDREW Commonwealth Graves Commision Sapper DUNSIRE, ANDREW Service Number 136489 Died 19/12/1915
    https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1610880/dunsire,-andrew/

    Sapper DUNSIRE, ANDREW
    Service Number 136489
    Died 19/12/1915
    Aged 35
    172nd Tunnelling Coy.
    Royal Engineers
    Husband of Jessie Stirling Dunsire, of Kirkland Hall, Leven, Fife.
    Remembered with Honour
    Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial
    / http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty

Historical events

Birthday April 27, 1880

  • The temperature on April 27, 1880 was about 9.7 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 54%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1880: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • January 27 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his incandescent lamp.
    • June 24 » First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. The song would later become the national anthem of Canada.
    • June 29 » France annexes Tahiti, renaming the independent Kingdom of Tahiti as "Etablissements de français de l'Océanie".
    • September 1 » The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan is routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
    • November 11 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
    • December 16 » Outbreak of the First Boer War between the Boer South African Republic and the British Empire.

Day of marriage November 21, 1913

  • The temperature on November 21, 1913 was between 7.1 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1913: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
    • April 4 » First Balkan War: Greek aviator Emmanouil Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot to die in the Hellenic Air Force when his plane crashes.
    • May 14 » Governor of New York William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
    • July 3 » Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors.
    • July 4 » President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
    • October 10 » U.S. President Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, completing major construction on the Panama Canal.
    • October 14 » Senghenydd colliery disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, claims the lives of 439 miners.

Day of death December 19, 1915

  • The temperature on December 19, 1915 was between -0.9 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1915: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
    • January 18 » Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
    • February 8 » D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
    • April 18 » French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
    • May 6 » Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
    • May 9 » World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
    • September 30 » World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.


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Source: Wikipedia

Source: Wikipedia


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