Janet Mackay

NOTE she is referred to as being "relict of an earlier Dunbar" if a connection to the Dunbar line existed on GENI it has been recently lost due to a bad merge; the clue lies within the last statement BUT chasing up both sets of parents for Janet Mackay (born 1769 and died 15.3.1857)] does not produce a "Dunbar connection" at the moment. and also in mentioning her the Mackay Book DOES NOT mention any Dunbar connection concerning her - the statement made is "His second wife was Janet, daughter of John Sinclair of Ulbster, Caithness, who bore him a son and a daughter :—"

This [the] Janet Mackay (born 1769 and died 15.3.1857) was the eldest daughter of Lt. Col. George Mackay and Louisa Campbell Mackay of Bighouse. She was married to Sir Benjamen Duff Dunbar of Ackergill and Hempbrigs.

The second wife of George, 3rd Lord Reay was Janet Sinclair*(relict of an earlier Dunbar) daughter of Sinclair of Brims/Ulbster. (* these two being great-great-grandparents of the Janet Mackay above)

Sincerely, Primrose Richards

leaving this so called paper-trail attached with the note - that further research can be done and reconnected if need be & also likewise have left information of her profile under his about me with a link back to her.

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• George 3rd Lord Reay MacKay
• Birth 1678
• Death 1748
• Spouse: Janet of Ulbster Sinclair
• Birth Death
• Child: Lieut Colonel Hon Hugh of Bighouse MacKayBirth Death 1770 in Bath, Somerset, England

XVII. George, 3rd Lord of Reay 1680-1786.

GEORGE, 3rd Lord Reay, who was born towards the close of 1678, succeeded in the title his grandfather, the second Lord Reay, towards the close of 1680, and during the following fourteen years was under the solicitous guardianship of his maternal grandfather, Sir George Munro of Culrain...

His second wife was Janet, daughter of John Sinclair of Ulbster,Caithness, who bore him a son and a daughter :—

• ii. Hugh Mackay of Bighouse, Lieutenant-Colonel of the first Sutherland regiment, married (contract 15 July, 1728) Elizabeth, eldest daughter and co-heiress of George Mackay of Bighouse, and had sasine of the estate of Bighouse or Strathhalladale, 28th February, 1742. In our account of the Bighouse Mackays we give further particulars.
• iii. Ann, who died 24th November, 1780, married John Watson of Muirehouse, Edinburghshire, contract dated 7th September, 1725. Their issue was two sons and a daughter : —...

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