James Mackey

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Husband James Mackey ¹

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1 M James Mackey ^{1 2}

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         Spouse: Keziah Rebecca Murphy (      -      ) 1

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2 M John Mackey ³

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3 M Thomas Mackey ³

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General Notes: Husband - James Mackey

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He was a direct descendant of William Mackey, of Tubeg, Scotland. The name Mackey is undoubtedly of Irish origin, the pro­genitor of the family in Scotland having removed from Ireland about the close of the twelfth century. The orthography of the name varies with the idiom of speech in different localities; but it is generally spelled Mackie, McKay, Makky, McKie, Mackey, Mackghie, Maokaye, etc. The clan is one of the oldest in Scotland. An ancient manuscript discovered in the late 1800s in the Advocates' library at Edinburgh, written by Andrew Simpson, and edited and published by Thomas Maitland, Jr., of Dundruman, men­tions the Mackeys as contemporary with Robert Bruce. Sir Robert Gordon, a recognized authority, states that Donald, the son of Iye, was the first who went under the name. The Mackeys must have resided for many centuries in Galloway, for an old parish there is called Balmaghie, i. e., Mackeytown.
A book published by Robert Mackay of Thurso, Scotland, in 1829, entitled “A History of the House and Clan of Mackey,” gives an account of the origin of the various branches of the clan and the different ways of spelling the name, showing that the latter originated in the twelfth century, and that all the Mackeys are descended from a common ancestry. [HVC 1890, 768]

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 412.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 536.

3 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 769.