• He worked as a postmaster in Coldbackie, Tongue.
• 31 Mar 1901 census: age 4, son of Hugh Mackay at Schoolhouse, Tongue, SUT. 3
Sources
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Tongue Grave HH Magnus Mackay (from picture). In fond remembrance of MAGNUS MACKAY who died at Coldbackie Post Office on 1st April 1969 aged 72 years.
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Tongue Deaths 1969 056/04 (Magnus Mackay). MAGNUS MACKAY male single 72 sub-postmaster date of birth 9 April 1896 died 1 April 1969 at Coldbackie Post Office, Tongue father Hugh Mackay crofter and sub-postmaster deceased mother Hughina Mackay ms Mackay deceased heart [detail not transcribed] informant H.J. Reid nephew
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1901 census of Scotland, Sutherland, Volume 56 Tongue, enumeration district (ED) 8, page 3, schedule no. 14, household of Alexander Mackay (postmaster); Hugh Mackay 52 head, postmaster and woodcutter, Tongue Hughina Mackay 46 wife, Tongue Jessie M Mackay 14 daughter, Tongue Tomina M Mackay 12 daughter, Tongue Hugh M Mackay 11 son, Tongue Donald R M Mackay 9 son, Tongue Heneratta M Mackay 6 daughter, Tongue Magnus Mackay 4 son, Tongue