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Sutherland / Re: MACKAY/MCKAY Family at Dornoch and Assynt
« on: Tuesday 27 December 16 20:47 GMT (UK) »
Hi All
First of all I am entirely new to this family tree searching and to make matters worse I come with very little information! I am trying to search back for my family on my fathers side. I do not have much information but know that he was from the Helmsdale area.
What I know!
Me: Robert Alexander Mackay (Born 1984 - Kirkcaldy)
Father: Robert Mackay (Born 1945 - Kildonan, Died 2008, Dunfermline.)
Fathers Siblings (John Mackay 1932 or 1934 unsure, Rosemary Macdonald Mackay (1941) Both alive but not in contact)
What I think I know based on a very patchy memory and what I have dug up online (Ancestry/Scotlandspeople). I have an odd memory my grans name was Grace and I know she lived the end of her life in Leslie House,Glenrothes where she passed away. I found this Grace which matches what I thought,
Grandfather: Alexander Mackay (I suspect Kildonan born and 1911?)
Grandmother: Grace MacDonald Manson (Then Mackay Married 1937 to Alexander Mackay) Born in Wick, Caithness 1912.
I have modified this post about 3 times as I have been stumbling upon answers. I am now convinced that all of the above are true. I will need to buy credits to check birth certificates of Grandmother (I am almost convinced I know the parents now) and Grandfather who I have no idea of Parents. 1911 Census just misses him.
Thank you for any info in advance.
Bob
First of all I am entirely new to this family tree searching and to make matters worse I come with very little information! I am trying to search back for my family on my fathers side. I do not have much information but know that he was from the Helmsdale area.
What I know!
Me: Robert Alexander Mackay (Born 1984 - Kirkcaldy)
Father: Robert Mackay (Born 1945 - Kildonan, Died 2008, Dunfermline.)
Fathers Siblings (John Mackay 1932 or 1934 unsure, Rosemary Macdonald Mackay (1941) Both alive but not in contact)
What I think I know based on a very patchy memory and what I have dug up online (Ancestry/Scotlandspeople). I have an odd memory my grans name was Grace and I know she lived the end of her life in Leslie House,Glenrothes where she passed away. I found this Grace which matches what I thought,
Grandfather: Alexander Mackay (I suspect Kildonan born and 1911?)
Grandmother: Grace MacDonald Manson (Then Mackay Married 1937 to Alexander Mackay) Born in Wick, Caithness 1912.
I have modified this post about 3 times as I have been stumbling upon answers. I am now convinced that all of the above are true. I will need to buy credits to check birth certificates of Grandmother (I am almost convinced I know the parents now) and Grandfather who I have no idea of Parents. 1911 Census just misses him.
Thank you for any info in advance.
Bob