In the book "Wigtownshire Charters" vol. 51, by Scottish Record Society, Google book, snippet view at : http://books.google.co.uk/books?ei=gNoeTYnsFIyKvQPh68iDDg&ct=result&id=QvdAAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Wigtownshire+Charters%22&q=McKinquhay#search_anchor page 127, no.96, Sep 30 1523, a Michael McKinquhay, N.P. and Symon McKristen, bailie, re Finla McCullact of Torhous, burgh of Wigton. Patrick Mure was Provost of the Burgh. Symon McKristen / McCristen , may have been father-in-law of Houston of Cottreoch, Whitehorn. page 128, 98, Jan. 31 1531/2 mentions Mr. Michael McKynquhay deceased, his protocol book. Mr. Gilbert Gibson may have been Notary Public after Michael McKynquhay. Was his name McKinstry ?

Thanks, Shirley, but Scottish names are very similar, with very different Gaelic meanings. McKinquhay isn't one of the variant forms of McKinstry that I've encountered. McKinty, from the other side of Scotland where some McKinstry's allegedly lived, allegedly is a variant form of McKinstry, but Kough gives a completely different Gaelic meaning for it, and if he's right, it isn't the same name. (I frankly wonder if it could have been mangled from MacKenzie, but from Galloway it seems to have had various phonetic spellings of McKinstry with high though not perfect consistency, and the most common variation was to drop the Mac.) I'm specifically looking for Marion McInnistrie, a baillie. Also the source of the information that M'Kynnistrie, which was dated 1574, Records of Galloway, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. That came from an online coat of arms sales thingy. It doesn't say where in Galloway this person is found. Nor the first name of the person. Though that is probably the exact spelling that was found. Someone on the Galloway-Dumfries list sent me a vague reference to a 1499 entry, from a different edition of Black's Surnames of Scotland than that which is available to me. Mine has one entry for MacKinstry, not three, and the earliest time cited for fidning the name is 1474. Thanks alot! Yours, Villandra Thorsdottir Austin, Texas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shirley Walsh" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2011 2:55 AM Subject: [WIG LIST] McKinstry - McKinquhay - McKynquhay > > > > > > > > > > > In the book "Wigtownshire Charters" vol. 51, by Scottish Record Society, > Google book, snippet view at : > > http://books.google.co.uk/books?ei=gNoeTYnsFIyKvQPh68iDDg&ct=result&id=QvdAAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Wigtownshire+Charters%22&q=McKinquhay#search_anchor > > page 127, no.96, Sep 30 1523, a Michael McKinquhay, N.P. and Symon > McKristen, bailie, > re Finla McCullact of Torhous, burgh of Wigton. Patrick Mure was Provost > of the Burgh. > Symon McKristen / McCristen , may have been father-in-law of Houston of > Cottreoch, Whitehorn. > > page 128, 98, Jan. 31 1531/2 mentions Mr. Michael McKynquhay deceased, his > protocol book. > Mr. Gilbert Gibson may have been Notary Public after Michael McKynquhay. > > Was his name McKinstry ? > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message