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[Maxie]

I'm looking for any details of burial or death of Alexander McKay. I think he died before 1881 because I haven't been able to find him in the 1881 census.

In 1871 I think he was in the workhouse at Camden Town

Thank you in advance, I hope

Maxie
 

[dawnsh]

Hi Maxie

Have you checked the deaths on freebmd for Alexander McKay & Mackay to see if there are any possibles not just between 1871 and 1881?

Do you have him on an earlier census to confirm his year of birth?

Did he marry? if so who and have you found her on a later census?

Dawn

[wozzle]

according to the 1871 he was born 1837 in scotland his occ is down as smith marital status married
 his wife emma and son frederick are living in st.pancras in 1871
if anyone wants to look at the censuses
emma and frederick transcribed as mcnay
RG10/210/58/28
alexander
RG10/233/82/2

[wozzle]

think this is the son frederick in 1881
RG11/297/11/16
jane.e.mckay age 44. b. southampton. occ. mantle maker(wid)
fred.j.mckay age 14. b. st.pancras. occ. errand boy. son
living at;8,brett road,hackney

so if the alexander in 1871 is him and this is as i beleive his wife and son
then he did die between 1871-1881

[wozzle]

still cannot find the death
there is a death of an alexander macoy and an alexander mackie both of the right age and both died in middx between 1871-1881 but not in reg dist of pancras or hackney where his wife is in 1881

[Maxie]

Thanks wozzle,

All the facts you've come up with are the same as the ones I've found. I've wondered in the past if Alexander died in the workhouse, but I don't know how I'd find that out.
I've never found a marriage for him either, though I think 'Emma' was Emma Bath.

Maxie
 

[wozzle]

someone else also thinks her maiden name was emma bath
on the 1871 on ancestry someone has corrected the surname from mcnay to mckay
and also says wife was emma bath they to cannot find the marriage
is that someone you maxie

[Maxie]

I'm getting a bit lost with the replies. But yes I corrected the name from Mcnay to Mckay, and made a comment about the marriage and name of Bath.
 

[wozzle]

Thanks wozzle,

All the facts you've come up with are the same as the ones I've found. I've wondered in the past if Alexander died in the workhouse, but I don't know how I'd find that out.
I've never found a marriage for him either, though I think 'Emma' was Emma Bath.

Maxie
 

going off track here a bit but the birth cert of frederick john mckay would tell you for sure his mothers maiden name