List of pedigrees Bland of Northern Neck Va. Nicholas of Roundway Hester of Fleming Co Ky Thruston Author's DNA match comparisons  |
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TSP Mackay refers to a common ancestry with the family of Forbes. According
to TSP Forbes, this may have been through O'Connor of Ochonochor a temp
Malcolm Canmore who r. 1058-1093 whose 3 sons were progenitors of the
Forbeses, the Urquharts and the Mackays. We hope to show the connection
in due course, purely 'for fun' of course as, in practice, reliable pedigrees
for all 3 families can be traced no further back than the 13th century.
[As reported on Macgregor1,
Douglas's 'Baronage of Scotland' refers to a claim that the Mackays were
an early branch of the Macgregors. Such was probably a conceit of an early
Macgregor historian.]
2 According to TSP, the first of the family to settle in Strathnaver was ... |
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| Mc24. Iye MacEth b c 1220 a c1260, chamberlain to Walter de Batrodie, Bishop of Caithness
m x dau of Walter de Batrodie, Bishop of Caithness |
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| Mc23 | Iye Mor Mackay b c 1250 | ||||||||||||||
| Mc22 | Donald Mackay b about 1280
m x MacNeil dau of Iye MacNeil of Gigha |
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| Mc21 | Iye Mackay b about 1310 d 1370 | ||||||||||||||
| Mc20 | Donald Mackay b about 1330 d 1370 | ||||||||||||||
| Mc19 | Angus
Mackay b about 1350
m x Macleod dau of Torquil Macleod of the Lews |
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| Mc18 | Angus
Du Mackay of Strathnaver b about 1370 d 1433
m1 before 08.10.1415 Elizabeth Macdonald sister of Donald, Lord of the Isles |
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| Mc17 | Neil
'Vass' Mackay of Strathnaver b about 1400 a 1437
m x Munro dau of George Munro of Fowlis by Isobel Ross |
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| Mc16 | Angus Roy Mackay of Strathnaver b about 1430 d c 1486
m x Mackenzie dau of Mackenzie of Kintail |
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| Mc15 | Ive Roy Mackay b about 1460 d 1517
m/p x O'Beolan dau of Norman O'Beolan, son of Patrick of Carloway |
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| Mc14-1 | John
Mackay of Strathnaver b about 1495 d c1529
m Margaret Fraser dau of Thomas, Lord Lovat probably wife of John and mother of ... |
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| Mc14-1-1 | daughter
m Hugh Moray of Aberscross |
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| Mc14-1-2 | Margaret Macka
m Walter Murray of Polrossie |
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| Mc14 | Donald Mackay of Strathnaver b about 1500 d 1550
m Helen Sinclair dau of Alexander Sinclair of Stemster |
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| Mc13 | Iye Du Mackay of Farr b about 1530 d 1572
m1/p Helen Macleod dau of Hugh Macleod of Assynt belowDispensation for this marriage to his cousin was not obtained so the issue were deemed illegitimate. |
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| Mc12-1 | John Beg Mackay d 1579 | ||||||||||||||
| Mc12 | Donald Balloch Mackay of Scoury or Scourie
m Euphemia Munro dau of Hugh Munro of Assint |
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| m2 Christina Sinclair dau of Sinclair of Dun | |||||||||||||||
| Mc12-3 | Huistean
Du Mackay of Farr b c1562, d 11.09.1614
m1 div Elizabeth Sinclair dau of George Sinclair, 4th Earl of Caithness |
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| m2 12.1589 Jane Gordon dau of Alexander Gordon, Earl of Sutherland | |||||||||||||||
| Mc12-4 | William
Mackay, 1st of Bighouse b
about 1563 d 1612
m Isabella Mackenzie dau of Rorie Mackenzie of Ardfalie |
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| Mc12-5 | Eleanor Mackay
m Donald Bane Macleod of Assynt |
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| Mc12-6 | Jane Mackay
m Alexander Sutherland of Beridale |
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| Mc12-7 | Barbara Mackay
m Alexander Macdavid of Clan Gunn |
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| Mc13-2 | daughter
b
about 1532
m John Mackay of Aberach |
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| Mc13-3 | Florence Mackay b about 1534
m Neil Macleod of Assynt |
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| Mc14-3 | Angus Mackay b about 1500 d before 1511 | ||||||||||||||
| Mc14-4 | daughter
b
about 1500
m Hugh Macleod of Assynt |
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| i | Neil Macleod | ||||||||||||||
| ii | Helen Macleod | ||||||||||||||
| m Iye Du Mackay of Farr d 1572 above | |||||||||||||||
| Mc14-5 | daughter b
about 1503
m Alexander Sutherland b 1491, d 1519/20, son of John, 8th Earl of Sutherland |
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| Mc15-2 | John Riavach Mackay b about 1462 d Flodden 1513 | ||||||||||||||
| Mc15-3 | Neil Naverach Mackay b about 1563
m x Sutherland dau of Hutcheon Sutherland of Croystoun |
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| A | John Mackay of Croystoun | ||||||||||||||
| Mc15-4 | daughter<
m Hector Mackenzie of Auchterneed |
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| Mc15-5 | daughter
m y Sutherland of Dirlot |
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| Mc16-2 | John Roy Mackay | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | William Reed Mackay | ||||||||||||||
| Mc16-3 | Elizabeth Mackay
m John Ian Mac-gill-eoin of Lochbuy a chieftain of Maclean |
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| m2 x Macdonald dau of Alexander Macdonald of Keppoch, brother of Donald of the Isles | |||||||||||||||
| Mc17-2 | Ian Aberach Mackay ancestor of the Aberach Mackays
m x Macintosh dau of y Macintosh of Mcintosh |
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| Not known by which wife were ... | |||||||||||||||
| Mc16-3+ | other issue - Roderick, William, Angus | ||||||||||||||
| Mc17-2 | Rorie Gald Mackay d Dingwall 1411 | ||||||||||||||
| Mc18-2 | Neil Mackay 4th son | ||||||||||||||
| A | Neil Mackay | ||||||||||||||
| i | Paul Mackay ancestor of the Polson Mackays | ||||||||||||||
| Mc18-3+ | other issue - Huistean Du, Martin in Galloway | ||||||||||||||
| Mc19-2 | Farquhar Mackay of Melness a 1380, physician to King Robert II | ||||||||||||||
| Mc13-3 | Mariota Mackay
p. Alexander Stewart, Lord of Badenoch |
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Sources: BP1934 Mackay, Lord Reay + BP1934 Reay,
BLG1952 Mackay of Bighouse and Sandwood
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