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[-?-] Mackay

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Farr, Sutherland, Scotland (United Kingdom)
Death: circa 1539 (10-27)
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Donald MacKay of Strathnaver and Helen Sinclair of Stempster
Wife of John Williamson MacKay of Achness, 4th Chieftain of Aebrach
Mother of Neil MacEan MacWilliam MacEan MacWilliaimson Mackay, of Achness and Margaret Mackay
Sister of Florence Mackay of Strathnaver; Iye MacKay of Strathnaver and Donald MacKay, of Borley in Durness
Half sister of Donald MacKay, of Borley in Durness

Managed by: Judith "Judi" Elaine (McKee) Burns
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About [-?-] Mackay

Origins

Donald Mackay, who died towards the close of 1550, married Helen, daughter of Alexander Sinclair of Stemster, son of William, second Earl of Caithness, to whom he gave certain lands in liferent soon after he had obtained a legal right to his property, and by her had issue :

  • 1. Iye du, of whom follows.
  • 2. a daughter, married to John, fourth chieftain of the Aberach Mackays, with issue.'
  • 3. Florence, married to Neil Macleod of Assynt, with issue.

a daughter of Donald Mackay of Strathnaver, (see page 121.) by Pg. 558 HISTORY THE HOUSE AND CLAN MACKAY,BY ROBERT MACKAY, 1829


He married the " umquhile Donald M'Kay's dochtir of Farr" (Orig. Par. Scot., II., ii, 713), in other words the
dau. of Donald XI. of Strathnaver and Farr pg. 245

THE BOOK OF MACKAY BY ANGUS MACKAY, M.A.
(St. Andrews University) Minister at Westerdale,
Caithness EDINBURGH : NORMAN MACLEOD, -25 GEORGE IV.
BRIDGE CANADA : EDWARD MACKAY, ST. PETER'S MANSE, MADOC,

ONT. M DCCCC VI

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[-?-] Mackay's Timeline

1520
1520
Farr, Sutherland, Scotland (United Kingdom)
1539
1539
Age 19
1540
1540
Farr, Sutherland, Scotland (United Kingdom)
1542
1542
Farr, Sutherland, Scotland