McKay

McKay

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My McKay ancestors came from the Isle of Muck in the Inner Hebrides on the West Coast of Scotland, south of the Isle of Skye, Isle of Egg, and Isle of Rhum. We now believe they came from Durness in the North East of Scotland before they came to the Isle of Muck.

Isle of Muck map You can zoom out using the map's controls.

They probably left during the Highland Clearances when landowners evicted the tenant farmers in favour of the more profitable sheep.

They came to the Mabou and Strathlorne area of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada before 1862. This is on the West coast of Cape Breton.

Map of Cape Breton: http://www.nsonline.com/vacation/cbmap.htm

Here are some inscriptions and family tree from a 1936 bible of Estelle. The family tree was written in by her mother, when visiting with McKay relatives in Mabou, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia in the late 1930s. The bible also holds family information on other branches of the family, but it is not reproduced here for reasons of personal privacy.

Inscription at front, dating bible to 1936.	McKay family tree in Mabou and Strathlorne area of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

Grave of Allan Daniel McKay and his wife Sarah Beaton. Woodlawn Cemetery, Welland, ON - Photo by Estelle Stevens or Marjorie Stevens, 2003.

My Great-grandfather Allan Daniel McKay was born in Mabou I believe on September 29, 1862. He worked for the Plymouth Cordage Company and moved with his family to Plymouth, Maine, USA where my Grandmother Mary McKay was born. We believe he was a manager and ended up with the Plymouth Cordage Company in Welland, Ontario. He died April 6, 1937 and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Welland, Ontario (near Niagara Falls).

He married Mary Sarah Beaton, also of the Mabou area of Cape Breton. She was born November 3, 1863 and died February 1, 1932. She is also buried in Welland.

Record of Commemoration for Charles Gordon McKay: Commonwealth War Graves Commission (to come)

Veterans' Affairs listing for Charles Gordon McKay. From this page there is a link to an image of the Book of Remembrance page in Ottawa which has his name on it.

His CEF records are in Ottawa at the National Archives CEF records for Charles Gordon McKay

One of their sons, Charles Gordon McKay joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) in World War I and ended up at Etaples, France working in a Canadian Army field hospital. He was killed on 23 May, 1918 in a German aerial bombing raid at the hospital. He is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery, France. He was 23 when he died.

A daughter, Mary McKay, also joined the army as a Nursing Sister. She proceeded overseas. She later returned to Canada and met her future husband who was a returned soldier who had Tuberculosis.

Grave of John A McKay and Beatrice S. in Woodlawn Cemetery, Welland, ON - Photo by Estelle Stevens or Marjorie Stevens, 2003.

Allan Daniel McKay had a son (?) John A. McKay (July 30, 1897 - April 5, 1867) who married Beatrice S. McKay (maiden name was??) (April 1, 1900 - Oct. 16, 1956). They are also buried in Welland, near Allan Daniel McKay.

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