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Andrew Dinsmore

Andrew Dinsmore

Male 1842 - 1863  (~ 21 years)

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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Andrew Dinsmore was born in Feb 1842 in Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana, USA (son of John Dinsmore and Margaret Small); died in Mar 1863 in Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana, USA.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  John Dinsmore was born in 1810 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland (son of Samuel Dinsmore and Mary Brewster); died after 1891 in Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana, USA.

    Notes:

    John succeeded his father on the home of his forefathers, in the parish of his birth. There he remained several years after the death of his father and in 1838, he, the last of the name there, left his native land, the old home of his people for several generations, and with his family an venerable mother removed to Bloomington, Indiana, were he has ever since lived, and where he resides in April 1891. Thus the ancestral home of the Dinsmores on Irish soil passed into the hands of others. It is occupied in 1891 by Archibald Usher.
    John and his family, his father and his family, are, and were, members of the Presbyterin Church. In a letter dated Oct. 1 1890, he says: "I hope and trust, through the intercession of the Lord and Saviour jesus Christ, that our names will e enrolled in the Book of Live". He married in 1832, Margaret Small, who died in 1882, at Bloomington Indiana.

    John married Margaret Small in 1832 in Ballymoney Presbyterian Church. Margaret was born about 1812 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland; died in 1882 in Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Margaret Small was born about 1812 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland; died in 1882 in Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana, USA.
    Children:
    1. Samuel Dinsmore was born on 8 Feb 1834 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland; died in in Burden, Kansas.
    2. Joseph Dinsmore, 8. was born on 1 Jan 1836 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland; died in in Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana, USA.
    3. Mary Dinsmore was born in Jan 1838 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland; died on 20 Oct 1853 in Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana, USA.
    4. William J. Dinsmore was born on 4 Mar 1840 in Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana, USA; died in in Earlville, IL.
    5. 1. Andrew Dinsmore was born in Feb 1842 in Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana, USA; died in Mar 1863 in Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana, USA.
    6. Theophilus W. Dinsmore was born on 27 Sep 1846 in Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana, USA; died on 14 Apr 1872 in Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana, USA.
    7. Matilda H. Dinsmore was born on 4 Jan 1850 in Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana, USA; died in in Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana, USA.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Samuel Dinsmore was born in 1761 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland (son of Robert Dinsmore); died on 12 Nov 1829 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland.

    Notes:

    He was a large, tall, strong-limbed farmer, and lived on a portion of the Dinsmore homestead in Ballywattick, where he died Nov 13, 1829 and is buried in Ballymoney Cemetery. Upon his tombstone in Ballymoney is this inscription: "Here lies the body of the late Samuel Dinsmore, of Ballywattick, who departed this life the 13th of Nov. 1829, aged 68 years; also his son, Robert, who departed this life the 18th of April, 1818, aged 18 ears." He and family were Presbyterians. His widow died in Bloomington, Ind, in 1847. He lived in a comfortable stone house, at the end of it is a fielld surrounded by trees, which make the place attractive and home-like.

    Samuel married Mary Brewster in 1783 in Antrim, Ulster. Mary was born in 1762 in Antrim, Ulster; died in 1847 in Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Mary Brewster was born in 1762 in Antrim, Ulster; died in 1847 in Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana, USA.

    Notes:

    Daughter of Andrew Brewster of Glenhall, County of Londonderry, Ireland.

    Children:
    1. Andrew Dinsmore was born about 1777 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland; died in in Charlottesville, VA.
    2. William Dinsmore was born about 1785 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland; died in in Piqua, Miami, OH.
    3. Margaret Dinsmore was born about 1789 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland; died in in Port Stewart, Londonderry, Ireland.
    4. Bettie Dinsmore was born about 1791 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland; died in in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
    5. Samuel Dinsmore was born about 1792 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland; died in 1816 in Baltimore, Maryland.
    6. James Dinsmore was born about 1795 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland; died in in Hamilton, Ohio.
    7. Robert Dinsmore was born in 1800 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland; died on 18 Apr 1818 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland.
    8. Mary Dinsmore was born about 1801 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland; died in in Bushmills, Antrim, Ulster.
    9. Jennie Dinsmore was born about 1803 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland; died in in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
    10. Rachel Dinsmore was born in 1806 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland; died in 1844 in Wayne Co., OH.
    11. Matilda Dinsmore was born about 1808 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland; died in in Baltimore, Maryland.
    12. 2. John Dinsmore was born in 1810 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland; died after 1891 in Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana, USA.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Robert Dinsmore was born in 1720 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland (son of Robert Dinsmoor); died after 1794 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland.

    Notes:

    Robert was a grandson of John Dinsmoor, the Scotch emigrant to Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County of Antrim. He was a farmer. A brother lived near him, and each ha d a large family. He was a leading man in the parish, was held in the highest respect, and was a Presbyterian in his religious faith. His intelligence was of a high order, and to him are we indebted for thre preservation of the genealogy and early history of the family. He was a man who enjoyed writing, and during his life he kept up a correspondence with a Laird Dinsmorr, at the old home in Scotland, and with his relatives in New Hampshire, US.

    One of his letters of Aug 12, 1794 to his cousin John Dinsmoor of Windham, New Hampshire, brother of Col. Silas Dinsmoor, the Indian agent.

    In it he gives a detailed genealogical description:
    "My grandfather was born on the mean land of Scotland, near the River Tweed - the son of a wealthy farmer, as I supposed from his style, being called the Laird of Achenmead, as he had tenants under him. He had two sons, of which my grandfather was the second, whose name was John. He (John) left his father's house in the seventeenth year of his age. I suppose he must have eloped, as he brought no property with him, as I have often heard, save a gray bonet of great extent, with striped woollen hose, and a small cane in his hand. This is your original in Ireland, and mine; and all by the name of Dinsmore, here or elsewhere, that belog to that stock. Therefore, you will be ready to say, we have little to boast of. But stay a little, my dear friend, and let us go a little higher, and return to Scotland. You see, as above, we are spring from a farmer. Will this give us any dignity? Yes, the most ancient, the most honorable in civil life. The second man in creation was a farmer. Cain was a tiller of the ground. What are Monarchs? What are Kings, Dukes, Lords, Earls? What was Alexander, or Philip of Macedonia, but murdering vagabonds? "The character of a farmer is far above them all. Stop but the farmer and his culture, and you sweep off the human race at one stroke. So you see that the farmer's station is exalted above all others. Therefore, our pedigree is higher than any other whatever.
    "I must crave your patience. Suffer me, then, to return to my grandfather and his offspring, of which you are a sprout. This man (John) had four sons, John 2, Adam, Robert and Samuel. John was the first that migrated to America of the name, and the first that struck a stick in Londonderry. This man was your grandfather's father and my uncle, who surmounted many difficulties in providing a large and free estate for his offspring, and in the attempt was made an Indian captive. ...
    This man (John I) lived until he was 99 years of age. He was fifty years married, and twenty nine years a widower, which ended his life, much respected by all who were acquainted with him, for his piety, morals, and good sense.
    The Dinsmorr coat-of-arms is a farm laid down on a plate, of a green color, with three wheat sheaves et upright in the centre, of a yellow color, all emblematical of husbandry and agriculture.
    ROBERT DINSMORE
    Title: Leonard Allison Morrison, Among the Scotch-Irish: and a Tour in Seven Countries, in Ireland, Wales, England, Scotland, France, Switzerland, and Italy; with History of Dinsmoor Family (Boston, Massachusetts: Damrell & Upham, 1891)

    Children:
    1. Margaret Dinsmore was born about 1750 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland; died on 4 Apr 1813.
    2. William Dinsmore was born in 1755 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland; died in 1818 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland.
    3. Mary "Molly" Dinsmore was born about 1757 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland; and died.
    4. 4. Samuel Dinsmore was born in 1761 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland; died on 12 Nov 1829 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland.
    5. Martha Dinsmore was born about 1763 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland; and died.
    6. James Dinsmore was born in 1767 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland; died in 1842.