• 5 Apr 1891 census: age 8, son of Alexander Mackay at Clashnastruag, Tongue, SUT, Scotland. 3
• 31 Mar 1901 census: age 18, ag.lab., son of Alexander Mackay at Tubeg Skerray, Tongue, SUT. 4
John married Janet "Jessie" Mackay [748], daughter of Andrew Mackay (Modsary) [2568] and Christina Watt [2567], on 19 Dec 1913 in Skerray, Tongue, SUT.1 (Janet "Jessie" Mackay [748] was born on 9 Sep 1891 in Modsary, Tongue, SUT 5 and died in Oct 1925 6.)
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Tongue Marriages 1913 056/03 image (John G. Mackay & Jessie Mackay). 19th December 1913 at Skerray Tongue; after F.C. banns; JOHN GEORGE MACKAY, crofter, bachelor, 30, Tubegskerra Tongue; Alexander Mackay crofter decd; Jessie Mackay ms Mackay decd. JESSIE MACKAY, domestic servant, spinster, 22, Modsary Tongue; Andrew Mackay crofter; Christina Mackay ms Watt; witnesses John Gunn, Andrewina Ross.
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Alasdair Sutherland, Never More. The Story of Tongue, Melness & Skerray War Memorials, pp.147-149 (Woodend Publishing, Tongue). JOHN GEORGE MACKAY, Clashnastruaig
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1891 census of Scotland, Sutherland, Volume 56 Tongue, enumeration district (ED) 10, page 4, schedule no. 14, household of Alexander Mackay (Clashnastruag Tubeg); Alexander Mackay 44 M crofter, Tongue Jennet Mackay 39 M wife, Tongue Maggie Mackay 16 daughter, Tongue Kitty Mackay 14 daughter, Tongue Mary Mackay 10 daughter, Tongue John Geo Mackay 8 son, Tongue Georgina Mackay 2mo daughter, Tongue Mary Mackay 83
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1901 census of Scotland, Sutherland, Volume 56 Tongue, enumeration district (ED) 10, page 4, schedule no. 20, household of Alexander Mackay (Tubeg Skerray); Alexander Mackay 55 head, crofter, Tongue Robina Mackay 46 wife, Tongue John G Mackay 18 son, ag.labourer, Tongue Georgina Mackay 10 daughter, Tongue Jessie Mackay 4 daughter, Tongue
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Iain H. Fraser 2009-04-30 to Mary Young re Jessie Mackay 1891-1925 and her children. Just ... picked up on Janet Mackay born 9 Sep 1891, Modsary. I have just completed an appreciation for Geordie Gunn in the Northern Times - he died in Migdale 7th April, 2009. His mother was Janet (Jessie) Mackay of Modsary daughter of Neil [Mackay] Modsary. She married a John Mackay, who was killed in 1917 in the First World War. She had two children - Jenny and John. John was born in 1917 after his father's death. Jenny married Tommy Mackay ( Brown) Bettyhill and they ran the PO in Bettyhill for 7 years before moving to Inverness and then retiring to Bettyhill. I shall try and find out further information on John. Janet Mackay following the death of her husband, John, in 1917 had a son (George, 30 June 1925) illegitimately to John Gunn (Hondie) of Tubeg, brother to Alexander Gunn, Clashnastruag. Janet was to die in the October of 1925, and thus George was looked after by Mrs Ross, Lamigo, who was Agnes Gunn's granny. Apparently George was so small he was transported to Lamigo in a shoe box. He was transferred to his birth father's family when about two years old.
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