Rachel Winterfield or Harrison

Sir Donald IV Mackay Kt, (1590-1649 in Denmark). Cr: Baronet 18 may 1627 with remainders to heirs male whatsoever and 1st Lord Reay created 20 June 1628 with remainder to his heirs male for ever bearing the name and arms of Mackay. A further patent creating him Earl of Strathnaver was never completed owing to the Civil war., Fought under Christian IV of Denmark's Thirty year War against Germany Also under Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden 1629-30; Royalist Civil war.

Married (1) 1610 to Barbara, sister of 1st Earl of Seaforth,

married (2) 1631 (Annulled) to Rachel Winterfield,

1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.2.3. (Second Marriage) Hon Donald Mackay, (1658-1680), Master of Reay, married 1677 to Anne Munro, with issue.

married  (3) 1631 to Elizabeth Thomson, married 

(4) to Marjorie Sinclair of Stirkoke, and

also held a mistress, Lady Mary Lindsay, daughter of 11th Earl of Crawford

1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.13. (illegitimate with Lady Mary Lindsay) Donald Mackay of Dysart, (1620 - 1659 Dysart), married 1640 to Isobel Ramsay, (illegitimate daughter of William Ramsay, 1st Earl of Dalhousie d. 1672), with issue.

http://www.maltagenealogy.com/Libro%20d'Oro%20della%20Mediterranean/Mackay.html

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A Mrs. Rachel Winterfield or Harrison claimed to be the wife of Lord Reay, and was successful in a suit of maintenance which she brought before the Privy Council in 1637; but Lord Reay maintained that forged documents were used to secure this verdict, and Gordon of Sallachy records that the judges had a personal grudge against him.

Scottish Peerage Vol 7 pg. 167-169

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Donald Mackay, 1st Lord Reay. Born February 1590. Died February 1649.

Donald married second c.1633 Rachel Winterfield.

• VII Robert Mackay.
• VIII Hugh Mackay

http://www.kittybrewster.com/ancestry/mackay.htm

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By his third wife, Rachel Winterfield or Harrison, he had two sons,

• Robert Mackay Forbes and
• Hugh Muir Forbes.

Of this marriage he obtained a....

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mackay,_Donald_(DNB00)

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Donald [Mackay], 1st Lord Reay

1st son and heir of Hugh Mackay of Far, Tongue and Strathnaver, by his second wife Lady Jean Gordon, 1st dau. by his second wife of Alexander [Gordon], 12th Earl of Sutherland

mar. (2) bef. 1631 Rachel Winterfield or Harrison (d. after 20 Nov 1652)

http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/reay1628.htm

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By a second wife, Rachel Winterfield or Harrison, he had two sons,

• the Hon. Robert Mackay Forbes and the
• Hon. Hugh Forbes.

Of this marriage he procured a sentence of nullity, ... but in 1637 was ordained to pay his second wife £2,000 sterling for part maintenance, and £3,000 sterling yearly during his non-adherence.

http://www.electricscotland.com/history/nation/reay.htm

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Lord Donald was thrice married....

as a foot note: 2 We do not believe that he was married to Mrs. Harrison, and Robert Mackay is certainly mistaken when he says that he was married to Lady Lindsay. pg. 123

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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" In February 1649," says Gordon, lC Donald Mackay, Lord Reay, having retired to Denmark, died in that kingdom... 3d, Rachel Winterfield: issue, a son, Donald pg. 328-329