Eric Mackay (Modsary) [2569]
(1806-1892)
Janet Campbell [2570]
(1819-1904)
Neil Watt [2566]
(1804-1872)
Catherine Sutherland [2565]
(Abt 1810-1858)
Andrew Mackay (Modsary) [2568]
(1848-After 1917)
Christina Watt [2567]
(1848-1921)
Janet "Jessie" Mackay [748]
(1891-1925)

 

Family Links

Spouses/Children:
1. John George Mackay [5]

2. John "Hondie" Gunn [11338]
  • George William Gunn [11339]

Janet "Jessie" Mackay [748] 3

  • Born: 9 Sep 1891, Modsary, Tongue, SUT 4
  • Marriage (1): John George Mackay [5] on 19 Dec 1913 in Skerray, Tongue, SUT 1
  • Unmarried (2): John "Hondie" Gunn [11338] 2
  • Died: Oct 1925 2

Jessie married John George Mackay [5], son of Alexander Mackay [130] and Janet "Jessie" Mackay [713], on 19 Dec 1913 in Skerray, Tongue, SUT.1 (John George Mackay [5] was born on 24 Jul 1883 in Tubeg Skerray, Tongue, SUT and died on 9 Apr 1917 in France 3.)


Jessie had a relationship with John "Hondie" Gunn [11338], son of William Gunn (Tubeg) [3168] and Hughina Mackay (Tubeg) [6434].2 (John "Hondie" Gunn [11338] was born on 25 Oct 1889 in Tubeg Skerray, Tongue, SUT 4.)

Sources

1 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.

2 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.

3 Alasdair Sutherland, Never More. The Story of Tongue, Melness & Skerray War Memorials, pp.147-149 (Woodend Publishing, Tongue). JOHN GEORGE MACKAY, Clashnastruaig

4 Skerray School Register.

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