This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MCKAY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EgC.2ACE/9979 Message Board Post: DESPERATELY TRYING TO FIND ACCURATE BIRTH DETAILS FOR THIS GGG GRANDPARENT. I BELIEVE THAT THE FAMILY MAY HAVE BEEN MIGRATING FROM THE NORTH COAST OF SUTHERLAND AROUND THE TIME OF HIS BIRTH ie AROUND 1800.HE WAS MARRIED IN THRUMSTER IN WICK IN 1831 TO HELEN BREMNER. THEY HAD A DAUGHTER CATHERINE BORN THERE IN 1833 AND A SON ALEXANDER IN 1835 PLACE UNKNOWN THEN MARGARET AND CHARLOTTE BORN IN ABERDEEN IN 1838 AND 41.AT THE TIME OF THE 1841 CENSUS THEY WERE LIVING IN THE GRAYFRIARS DISTRICT OF ABERDEEN BUT THE CENSUS DATES ARE TOO VAGUE TO BE USEFUL. HELEN DIED IN ABERDEEN IN 1851 AND DONALD MARRIED A MARGARET BEATTIE FROM DUNOTTER IN 1853. DONALD DIED IN THE ST NICHOLAS POORS HOUSE IN ABERDEEN 1N 1862. HIS DEATH CERT GIVES HIS AGE AS 'ABOUT' 62 YEARS AND THE PARENTS DETAILS ARE BLANK AS IS HIS PLACE OF BIRTH. AFTER HIS DEATH THE FAMILY (ALEXANDER MARRIED IN 1835 IN ABERDEEN) MOVED TO EDINBURGH AND I HAVE MUCH OF THEIR HISTORY FROM THERE. PLEASE DOES ANYONE HAVE THESE VITAL DET! AILS. I APOLOGISE FOR THE LENGTH OF THIS MESSAGE, BUT WHO KNOWS EVEN IF I GET NO REPLIES IT MAY FILL A FEW GAPS FOR OTHERS THANK YOU.