Internet Mail FWD>Fwd: Dunsmore family Perhaps someone can help |------------------------- enclosed message -------------------------| From: VANBET <[email protected]> Return-path: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Dunsmore family Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 13:25:49 EDT Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Thank you for sending me a quick look at the background of some of the Dunsmore family. Mine has been a real puzzle and so far I have not made anymore progress other than what I learned years ago from my own family. So far this is what I have: 1- John DUNSMORE married Rachel WALKER in 1812 at Old Monkland, Lanark 2- George Dunsmore b. 1824, m. 1854 Bathgate, W. Lothian, died 1881 Glasgow, Lanark. He married Agnes GARDNER, born 1829 the daughter of James Gardner & Agnes McKinney 3- John Gardner Dunsmore b. 1855 Bathgate, W. Lothian, married 1877 Cambusland to Eliza Jane Mortimer HARPER. Eliza was born in 1858 at Ballynahinch, Down, Ireland, the daughter of John Harper and Margaret BARR. She died here in Michigan in 1920 and her body was shipped back to Scotland. There daughter Sarah was born in 1886 in Glasgow and married Andrew Hynd MUNGALL. They were my grandparents. John Garner Dunsmore was a Police Constable in Glasgow when my grandmother was quite small. That seems to be all I know about him. My eldest uncle, before he died told me all he could remember about the family in Scotland, but it really wasn't that much. The three oldest sons (including my father ) were born in Scotland. My grandmother Sarah had a book that was given to her "The Poets and Poetry of Linlithgowshire" by Alex. M. Bisset and published by J. and R. Parlane in Paisley in 1896. James Gardner had six poems in the book. On the inside front cover was the following: John Dunsmore 327 Duke Street, Glasgow 13th July 1896. Handwritten below was Sarah Mungall, grand niece of James Gardner Poet and Solicitor of Bategate Linlithgowshire. The author had introduced James with the following James Gardner, the author of the following verses, is a native of Bathgate, where he is a solicitor and Procurator Fiscal. He began to rhyme when about twelve years of age and has been a frequent contributor of verse to newspapers and journals for a great number of years: but has not yet seen fit to issue these in book form. During election times his satirical pen has often been a thorn in the flesh of the party opposed to him in the political arena, and, indeed through offering but little criterion of his ability as a poet, it is by these effusions that he is most widely known. He has always been a keen and successful curler and bowler and is recognized as the laureate of the Bathgate Curling and Bowling Clubs, and of the Torphichen Kilwinning Lodge No. 13, in which he has held the position of Right Worshipful Master seven or eight times. He is at present the President of "Under the Breeches" Literary Society of which he has been a member since its inception, He has the happy gift of rhyming extemporaneously, and seldom a convivial meeting at which he is present breaks up without a "verse all round" on the company. It is to be hoped that Mr. Gardner will, someday soon, collect and publish his political effusions and his reminiscences of Bathgate. "Bonnie Jean" and "The bonnie wee blossom" are exquisite little songs, and both have finally been set to music by his friend Henry Shanks, the gifted poet of the Deans. I was fortunate that my aunt (after my grandmother died) lent me the book so I could copy the information and his poems. The DUNSMORES and the GARDNERS seem to be interesting families if I could just locate more information about the families. I am also curious about the family of Eliza Jane Mortimer HARPER. I f you happen to know anyone who could possibly have more information, I would really appreciate it if you would give me their e-mail or regular mail addresses. Thanks, Betty Mungall Van Landeghem Grand Blanc, MI. 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