You would very likely be interested in this volume, which I have read and copied, but which is reproduced in its entirety at:

http://books.google.com/books?id=rxkaAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA90&am...

It traces my family back to John (Daddy) Dinsmoor and I have succeeded in getting the name back into Scotland via Ireland in the early 1700's and even to mid 1600's. I am a direct descendant of the two Samuel Dinsmoors who were governors of NH in 1835 and 1855. I was told in Edinburgh back in 1969 that Dunsmuir is an origin for Dinsmoor and Dinsmore.

Do you have any info on the locations the Dinsmoors came from in Scotland? I am stymied by Duns, in the Borders, and by locations near Blair in Perthshire. Laird Dinsmoor was suppsoed to have orginated from near the river Tweed in the Borders.

Any help would be appreciated.

Dinny White