Brig Gen Hon Aeneas Mackay

VII.  The Dutch Mackays 

I. The Hon. Aeneas Mackay, Brigadier-General, son of the 2nd Lord Reay by Ins wife Barbara, dau. of Colonel Hugh Mackay of Scoury, was the first of this family. After prolonged military service in Scotland, Ireland, and on the Continent, he went to Bath for his health in 1697, where he d. after a few weeks' sojourn, worn out with war and wounds. A monument stands to his memory in Bath Cathedral. He m. in 1692 Margaret, Countess von Puckler, who d. his widow at Teil, Guelder! and, 14 Feb. 1/61, at the age of 90. They had one child, of whom follows : —

• II. Colonel Doxald Mackay, commanded his father's Scots regiment in the Dutch service, and fell at Tournay in 1745. He m. his cousin Arnolda Margaret, Baroness van den Steen, issue five :

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 THE BOOK OF MACKAY BY ANGUS MACKAY, M.A. (St. Andrews  University) Minister at Westerdale, Caithness EDINBURGH :  NORMAN MACLEOD, -25 GEORGE IV. BRIDGE CANADA : EDWARD MACKAY,  ST. PETER'S MANSE, MADOC, ONT. M DCCCC VI

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AEneas, the second son, was colonel of the Mackay Dutch regiment. His family settled at the Hague, where they obtained considerable possessions, and formed alliances with several noble families. Their representative, Berthold Baron Mackay, died 26th December 1854, at his chateau of Ophemert, in Guelderland, aged eighty-one. He married the Baroness Van Renasse Van Wilp, and his eldest son, the Baron AEneas Mackay, at one time chamberlain to the king of Holland, became heir to the peerage of Reay, after the present family

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THE MELNESS BRANCH OF MACKAYS.

THE Hon. Colonel Aeneas Mackay of Melness, the first of this branch, second son of Donald, first Lord Reay, by his first wife, the Hon. Barbara Mackenzie, daugher of Lord Kentail, married,

1st, his cousin, a daughter of Roderick Mackenzie of Redcastle issue, besides other children,

• John, who succeeded him.

He married, 2nd Catherine, daughter of Alexander Gun of Killernan, chieftain of the clan Gun."

Sasine in favour of u Angus McKy of Melness, and Katherin Gun, his spous, of the lands of Melnes, and teynds thereof, dated 4th, and recorded 7th August 1676,-Regislicr of Sasines for Sulherland-shire.

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Col-Proprietor of the Mackay Scottish Regiment in the service of the Netherlands

3. Brig Gen Hon Aeneas Mackay, Col-Proprietor of the Mackay Scottish Regiment in the service of the Netherlands (d. 1697), mar. 1692 Margaret Puchler (d. 14 Feb 1761), dau. of Lt Col Francis Puchler by his wife Jacoba van Bie, and had issue:

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THE HOLLAND BRANCH OF MACKAYS. BRIGADIER-General the Hon. Aeneas Mackay, colonel of the Mackay Dutch regiments,s econd son of John Lord Reay, by Lady Barbara, daughter of Colonel Hugh Mackay of Scowry, married in 1692, baroness Margaret, daughter of Lieutenant colonel Baron Francis Puchler, by his wife Jacoba de Bie : issue

• Colonel Donald of his father's regiment, who married his cousin, Baroness Arnolda Margaret Van den Steen

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4. Aeneas, joined the Scots Brigade in the service of Holland, returned home in 1688, and was imprisoned in Edinburgh on suspicion of intriguing for the Prince of Orange. He served under his uncle, General Mackay, during the campaign of 1689-90 in Scotland, afterwards in Ireland, and then returned to the Continent, where he rose to the rank of brigadier general. Aeneas, who died in 1697, married, in 1692, Margaret, daughter of Lieut.-Col. Baron Francis von Puckler, and by her, who died 14 February 1761, aged ninety, had an only child,

• 5. Robert, a captain in a Scots regiment, was present at Killiecrankie, where he was severely wounded ; afterwards served in Ireland and on the Continent. He died at Tongue unmarried in 1696, holding the rank of colonel.
• 6. Joanna, married (contract dated 21 April 1684) to William Eraser of Struy, Strathglass.
• 7. Anna, married (contract " dated 12 April 1687) to Captain Hugh Mackay of Borley, as his first wife ; no issue.
• 8. Sibylla, married (contract' dated 25 October 1687), first, to Lauchlin Macintosh of Aberador, Invernessshire. She married, secondly, Alexander Rose, a bailie of Inverness (contract 25 October 1689) , and died 17 October 1691, aged twenty-seven.

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