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Margaret MacKay 1563–1619 – Genealogical Records

Birth Date: 1563

Birth Location: Sutherland, Scotland

Death Date: 06 Nov 1619

Death Location: Duffus, Moray, Scotland

Father: Donald Scoury

Mother: Emphemia MacKay

Spouse(s): William Duffus, Alexander Sutherland

Children(s): Sutherland, Sutherland

The story of Margaret MacKay began in 1563 in Sutherland, Scotland. Margaret MacKay married Alexander Earl Of Sutherland Sutherland, William Sutherland 9Th Earl Of Duffus, and had children including Sutherland William Grant Jonet Sinclair Margaret Sutherland. Margaret MacKay passed away in 1619 in Duffus, Moray, Scotland.

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Biography

  • The story of Margaret MacKay began in 1563 in Sutherland, Scotland.
  • Margaret MacKay married Alexander Earl Of Sutherland Sutherland, William Sutherland 9Th Earl Of Duffus, and had children including Sutherland William Grant Jonet Sinclair Margaret Sutherland.
  • Margaret MacKay passed away in 1619 in Duffus, Moray, Scotland.

Immediate Family

Parents

Spouses(s)

Children(s)

Margaret MacKay's Ancestors

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Margaret MacKay
1563–1619
Birth Place: Sutherland, Scotland
Parents
Donald Balloch Mackay of Scoury
1545–1590
Strath, Highland, Scotland
Emphemia MacKay
1555–1590
Scotland
Grandparents
Lye (Du CALLED BLACK DUNCAN OF THE COWL MacKay ( "Black Eye", 12th Clan Chief of MacKay, of Strathnaver)) (1530-1572)
1500–1572
Ayr, South Ayrshire, Scotland
Helena (Eupheme Mac-Leod of) Assynt
1521–1589
Assynt, Sutherland, Scotland
Robert (More) Munro
1504–1547
Cromarty, Ross & Cromarty, Scotland
Lady ("Anna" MARGARET of Cumnock Munro Folis Dunbar descendant of King Henry I and Ethelred the Unready , daughter of Sir Alexander Dunbar, Sheriff of) Morayshire
1506–1552
Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
Great-Grandparents
Donald Strathnaver
1484–1550
Helen Sinclair
1495–1545
Hugh MacLeod
1494–1521
Agnes Mackay
1501–1530
Hector Munro
1480–1541
Catherine Mackenzie
1485–1521
Alexander Dunbar
–1497
2nd-Great-Grandparents
Lye MacKay
1435–1517
Fiona O'Beolan
1468–
Alexander Stemster
1501–1541
Lady Innes
1501–1557

Margaret MacKay's Descendants

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Margaret MacKay (1563–06 Nov 1619) m. William (Sutherland 9th Earl of) Duffus (1558–1606) m. Alexander (Earl of Sutherland) Sutherland (1554–1616)
  1. 1. Sutherland, (William Grant, Jonet Sinclair, Margaret) Sutherland 1592–1626 m. Lady (Jean Grant of Freuchie) Sutherland 1591–1626
    1. 1. SUTHERLAND, (Earl of) Sutherland 1621–1674 m. Lady (Margaret) Stewart 1629–1667
      1. 1. William (Sr. Sutherland "The) Scot" 1650–1721 m. Margaret Toshach 1665–1699
        1. 1. William (Sutherland) II 1705–1772 m. Hannah Avery 1705–1752

Margaret MacKay's Timeline

6 Records

1547
Abt. 1547
Birth of Margaret MacKay in Elgin, Moray, Scotland
Elgin, Moray, Scotland
1563
1563
Birth of Margaret MacKay in Sutherland, Scotland
Sutherland, Scotland
1563
1563
Birth of Margaret MacKay in Sutherland, Scotland
Sutherland, Scotland
1563
1563
Birth of Margaret MacKay in Murkle, Caithness, Scotland
Murkle, Caithness, Scotland
1563
1563
Birth of Margaret MacKay in Sutherland, Scotland
Sutherland, Scotland
1619
06 Nov 1619
Age 56
Death of Margaret MacKay in Duffus, Moray, Scotland
Duffus, Moray, Scotland

Sources

    Genealogy Event 1
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: Abt. 1547
    Event Place: Elgin, Moray, Scotland

    Genealogy Event 2
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: 1563
    Event Place: Sutherland, Scotland

    Genealogy Event 3
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: 1563
    Event Place: Sutherland, Scotland

    Genealogy Event 4
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: 1563
    Event Place: Murkle, Caithness, Scotland

    Genealogy Event 5
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: 1563
    Event Place: Sutherland, Scotland

    Genealogy Event 6
    Event Type: Death
    Event Date: 06 Nov 1619
    Event Place: Duffus, Moray, Scotland

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