The SUNTER and ANDREW family. Kilconquhar and Paisley

[Mollyrobz]

Please help me with my SUNTER family research

So far I am up too DAVID SUNTER who married MARGARET ANDREW in PAISLEY, RENFREWSHIRE 1785.

I believe that MARGARET originated from PAISLEY and DAVID from FIFE. Most of his sons, sons sons and so on coming from the KILCONQUHAR area. I don't have a birth for DAVID or MARGARET as of yet.

I know of children
Jean, Alexander, James, Anne, David, John, Janet, Elizabeth and William. Some born PAISLEY others born Kilconquhar.

The surname changes from SUNTER to SUNTAR and a few others. DAVID was possibly the son of ALEXANDER SUNTAR and MARGARET SYMSON.

Any info on this family would be greatly appreciated

Thanks in advance
Molly

[carolineasb]

I have an Amelia Sunter marrying into my Tannahill (Andrew) family in 1860 (20th July) in Paisley. Her father was Alexander Sunter and her mother, I think, is Amelia McLuskey (unclear on marriage certificate). Both parents are dead at the time of her marriage.

Is Alexander possibly the Alexander you mention?

[anne_p]

Caroline,
The mother's name on that marriage cert will be correct

.Amelia Sunter
Gender:   Female
Birth Date:   10 Apr 1838
Birth Place:   , Abbey Paisley, Renfrew, Scotland
Father:   Alexander Sunter
Mother:   Amelia Mcluskie
FHL Film Number:   1041090, 0889472

Father Alexander probably died before 1841 and mother Amelia probably died before 1851
1841 Paisley, MISTRANSCRIBED   
Name   Age
Eunalia Sunter   35
Janet Sunter   9
John Sunter   6
Emalia Sunter   3


1851: Cotton St, Paisley
(Millar and Sunter children all listed as grandchildren with everybody else as lodgers)
All Sunter children born to Alexander Sunter and Amelia McLuskey.
everyone on census was born in Paisley
   

Catherine Mcleod   74
Thomas Millar   19
James Millar   14
Alexander Millar   8
Janet Sunter   19*
John Sunter   17*
Amelia Sunter   12*
Cathrine Henderson   22
Mary Henderson   2
James Henderson   6 Mo

[hdw]

I don't know about the Paisley connection, but there were certainly Sunters in the village of Earlsferry in east Fife, which is part of the parish of Kilconquhar although it's physically joined on to Elie, a parish in its own right.

William Sunter died in Earlsferry in 1878, aged 80. The widower of Elizabeth Peebles, he was the son of David Sunter and Margaret Andrew. At the time of his death William was a pauper, formerly a linen weaver.

Harry

[Andrew Sunter]

hi

I'm Andrew Sunter. not related to the Paisley Sunter directly but my family tree takes me back to Kilconquhar too. I think there were two William Sunter in Kilconquhar in the late 1780s. one of them is my many times removed grandfather. I always assumed the other was a cousin of his. one went to Paisley, one stayed in Fife.

so although it maybe a very wide shot we are probably related

[hdw]

I'm not related to any of the Sunters, I just keep tabs on the various Peebles families in east Fife as my mother was a Peebles, so I arrived at William Sunter via his wife Margaret Peebles (not a member of my extended Peebles family as it turned out).

Harry

[blueheeler]

Dear Molly,

My name is David Ritchie and in researching my family history I have found that a Jean Sunter married a David Ritchie in Kilconquhar in 1811. Jean's father David was born in 1762 and her mum Margaret Andrew was born in 1764 in Fife.

Hope that helps.
I have with no success try to find out when Jean Ritchie ne Sunter died. Can you help ?

David and Jean had five kids.

David

[blueheeler]

 To Andrew Sunter.

I am trying to find out when Jean Sunter born 14/12/1785 , married David Ritchie in 28/2/1811 in Kilconquhar, the date of her death.

Can you help ?

Also the date of her daughter's  Jean's death ?

regards

David Ritchie

[Rosinish]

one of them is my many times removed grandfather.

Hi Andrew,

ANY G/father no matter how many x whether x 20 g/father would not include any removes as he would be your direct line.

Annie