parish records.......McKay

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[jel]

Hi Maryella

I really hope you get my previous message. Further to what I said, if you look at the 1901 census there was another child born to Alexander HUGH Mackay and Catherine Rowlands and that was Alexander who was born in 1897 in Bristol. At the time they were in Bristol other relatives of theirs (and mine) were living there too. I can't believe the number of family trees on Ancestry that have this wrong but then again BOTH the Alexander's were born in Aberdeen in 1861 but the one was Alexander HUGH and the other Alexander LENNOX and they both married a CATHERINE!!! I don't have access to ancestry so I can't leave a comment for anyone to get it corrected
Janet

[jel]

For anyone else that is interested in this family and may see these notes, I now have the marriage certificate in Wales for Alexander Mackay and Catherine Rowlands in 1886.The cert states David as being Alexander's father ("deceased" and he died in 1880), Joseph as being Catheine's father and I have since found out that her mothers name was Elizabeth and her sister, Mary Ann, was also a witness to the marriage. John, Alexander's brother, was also a witness to the marriage

[jel]

For anyone else interested in the Alexander Hugh Mackay saga I am very pleased to say that Maryella and I have now established that we are in actual fact "cousins" and we are in constant contact, with regards to our mutual relative, Alexander Hugh Mackay born in Aberdeen in 1861. He married Catherine Rowlands and she died in 1904 in Cardiff. Alexander spent a fair amount of time in Quebec and worked for the Hirsbrunner company in Tientsin, China. He died in Tientsin in 1916. His son, Captain Alexander Hirsbrunner Mackay died in Rangoon, China in 1942. His son James died in Liverpool in 1945, his daughter Rose married and immigrated to Australia and we are still looking for Lily and John.
Janet