My main interests are MACKAY/MORRISON/ MCBEATH from Skerray, Tongue - also some from Lairg
MANSON - originally from Tongue (this also includes Mackay from Strathnaver)
MORRISON/FALCONER/ MACKAY/MACASKILL - Scourie/Kinlochbervie/Durness.
Fiona Mackay
Scotland
Showing posts with label Tongue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tongue. Show all posts
Saturday, August 4, 2007
McKAY (GOW) and McKAY McINLAY, Tongue
The people of special interest to us are the families and descendants of:-
1) JOHN McKAY (GOW) Blandy, Tongue, stonemason, ground officer of Tongue, married Barbara MACLEOD, whose parentage we have not yet established. He died 1820; she died 1845. Their family included -
Catherine b bef 1788 d 1840-41, Strathtongue
George b c 1788 d 1857 stonemason, Dalcharn
Barbara b 1793 d unm 1869
Helen b 1796Robert b c 1800 d 1872 joiner, Strathtongue
Hugh, youngest son, ground officer of Tongue1823-1826; may have emigrated c 1832.
2) JOHN McKAY McINLAY, Strathmoreskerray, Lamigo and Blandy, Tongue - fisherman and tenant, b c 1776, married Merran MCKAY, daughter of John McKay and Catherine McKay. He died between 1844 and 1851; she died 1858. Their family included:-
John b c 1810.... b c 1816
Janet b c 1818
Isabella b c 1821
Williamina b 1822
Robertina b 1822
George b c 1824
We have some more information about their children and grandchildren, and would welcome any further details especially about John McKay Gow's and BarbaraMacLeod's parentage.
We also have a general interest in the history of Tongue in the late eighteenth and the first half ofthe nineteenth century.
Margaret McKay
UK
1) JOHN McKAY (GOW) Blandy, Tongue, stonemason, ground officer of Tongue, married Barbara MACLEOD, whose parentage we have not yet established. He died 1820; she died 1845. Their family included -
Catherine b bef 1788 d 1840-41, Strathtongue
George b c 1788 d 1857 stonemason, Dalcharn
Barbara b 1793 d unm 1869
Helen b 1796Robert b c 1800 d 1872 joiner, Strathtongue
Hugh, youngest son, ground officer of Tongue1823-1826; may have emigrated c 1832.
2) JOHN McKAY McINLAY, Strathmoreskerray, Lamigo and Blandy, Tongue - fisherman and tenant, b c 1776, married Merran MCKAY, daughter of John McKay and Catherine McKay. He died between 1844 and 1851; she died 1858. Their family included:-
John b c 1810.... b c 1816
Janet b c 1818
Isabella b c 1821
Williamina b 1822
Robertina b 1822
George b c 1824
We have some more information about their children and grandchildren, and would welcome any further details especially about John McKay Gow's and BarbaraMacLeod's parentage.
We also have a general interest in the history of Tongue in the late eighteenth and the first half ofthe nineteenth century.
Margaret McKay
UK
Friday, August 3, 2007
MUNRO, DUNCAN, MACKAY in Farr & MACINTOSH, MACKENZIE in Tongue
I am researching:
MUNRO - salmon fishermen in Invernaver, Parish of Farr in the early 1800's, also DUNCANS in the same area.
George MACKAY born 1797 in Farr, Parish of Farr married to a Janet McBeath
McINTOSH - Inchverry, Tongue and McKENZIE at nearby Dionside (Deanside), Tongue
Tom Johnson
Berkshire, UK
MUNRO - salmon fishermen in Invernaver, Parish of Farr in the early 1800's, also DUNCANS in the same area.
George MACKAY born 1797 in Farr, Parish of Farr married to a Janet McBeath
McINTOSH - Inchverry, Tongue and McKENZIE at nearby Dionside (Deanside), Tongue
Tom Johnson
Berkshire, UK
MACKENZIE, MACLEOD, MACLEAN, MACKAY, GRANT, ROSS
I have had enormous help from Christine - we are related through MACKENZIE of Torbreck, Rogart.
Also researching:
William MACLEOD, d. 1885, originally from Durness, then Rogart.
Donald MACLEAN, d. 1858, Nedd.
George MACKAY, b. 1821 Tongue, then Kirtomy, Farr. Married to Ann MACDONALD, d. 1891, Kirtomy.
Robert MACINTOSH, living in Achargary, Starthnaver in 1811 and later cleared (?) to Strathy.
Hugh GRANT, b. 1786, soldier 42nd Regt., later living in Kildonan, then cleared(?) to Skail, then to Strathy Point.
Robert ROSS, b. 1799, Skelpick, Strathnaver, cleared (?) to Strathy Point.
I also have another Macdonald line: Robert MACDONALD, Rossal, Strathnaver (cleared in 1814) and Isobella MACKAY are my 4th great grandparents.
David Mackay
England
Also researching:
William MACLEOD, d. 1885, originally from Durness, then Rogart.
Donald MACLEAN, d. 1858, Nedd.
George MACKAY, b. 1821 Tongue, then Kirtomy, Farr. Married to Ann MACDONALD, d. 1891, Kirtomy.
Robert MACINTOSH, living in Achargary, Starthnaver in 1811 and later cleared (?) to Strathy.
Hugh GRANT, b. 1786, soldier 42nd Regt., later living in Kildonan, then cleared(?) to Skail, then to Strathy Point.
Robert ROSS, b. 1799, Skelpick, Strathnaver, cleared (?) to Strathy Point.
I also have another Macdonald line: Robert MACDONALD, Rossal, Strathnaver (cleared in 1814) and Isobella MACKAY are my 4th great grandparents.
David Mackay
England
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